Sahą́ı̨́ʔą

Sahaiʔa English Proper noun en female Chipewyan. en Sahaiʔa Sahᾴí̜ʔᾳ en Juanita Taylor Chipewyan girl, age 8, still waiting for proper name to appear on legal documents w:CBC News https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/shene-catholique-valpy-traditional-names-1.6601460 2022-09-30 That's how long the Yellowknife mom has been trying to get the Northwest Territories government to change its system to allow for Indigenous symbols on official documents for her daughter, Sahᾴí̜ʔᾳ​, who was born in 2014. "It's a very simple aspect of reconciliation," Catholique Valpy said, as Sahᾴí̜ʔᾳ, 8, played with her hair. Sahᾴí̜ʔᾳ​'s younger sister, six year-old Náʔël, is in the same situation. Sahᾴí̜ʔᾳ and Náʔël are both traditional Chipewyan names. https://web.archive.org/web/20220930083558/https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/shene-catholique-valpy-traditional-names-1.6601460 2022-09-30 en Charlotte Morritt-Jacobs (The Canadian Press) Prince Charles and Camilla wrap up Platinum Jubilee visit in Northwest Territories w:APTN National News https://www.aptnnews.ca/national-news/prince-charles-and-camilla-wrap-up-platinum-jubilee-visit-in-northwest-territories/ 2022-05-19 They were also presented with flowers wrapped in birch tree bark by Sahᾴí̜ʔᾳ May Talbot, a face familiar to APTN News followers with her fight with federal and territorial officials over recognition of her traditional name and spelling. https://web.archive.org/web/20220520001053/https://www.aptnnews.ca/national-news/prince-charles-and-camilla-wrap-up-platinum-jubilee-visit-in-northwest-territories/ 2022-05-20 Usage notes The Latin characters ą, ą́ and į́ used in the name may look like the Greek characters ᾳ, ᾴ, and the Latin character i with acute combined with the character diacritic left half ring below, í̜, as the nasal hook is typically detached in handwritten form and in some fonts. The form Sahᾴí̜ʔᾳ with those characters is used instead of the form Sahą́ı̨́ʔą with characters typically used in Chipewyan orthography.