Languagle #29: Ojibwe
Aaniin endaso-biboonagiziyan?
aa-NEEN en-da-so-bi-boo-na-GI-zi-yan
"How many winters are you? The Ojibwe way of asking your age."
What it means
Literally "how many winters are you?" Ojibwe counts a person’s age in winters rather than years, which tells you something about which season you measure your survival by.
What kind of saying it is
Everyday speech. Not a proverb — something people actually say day to day.
Worth knowing
Written in the double-vowel spelling system used for Anishinaabemowin today, where a doubled letter marks a long vowel.
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