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Ojibwe Yearly Birthday Words: dibishkamowin (birthdays)
Grade 2,3

inwemowin - Pronunciation Key 

Ojibwe English
ingodo biboonagizi One year old
niiNzho biboonagizi Two years old
niso biboonagizi Three years old
niiyo biboonagizi Four years old
naano biboonagizi Five years old
ningodwaaso biboonagizi Six years old
ingodwaaso biboonagizi Six years old
niiNzhwaaso biboonagizi Seven years old
nishwaaso biboonagizi Eight years old
zhaaNgaso biboonagizi Nine years old
midaaso biboonagizi Ten years old
ashi bezhigo biboonagizi Eleven years old
ashi niiNzho biboonagizi Twelve years old
ashi niso biboonagizi Thirteen years old
ashi niiyo biboonagizi Fourteen years old
ashi naano biboonagizi Fifteen years old  
ashi ningodwaaso biboonagizi Sixteen years old  
ashi ingodwaaso biboonagizi Sixteen years old
ashi niiNzhwaaso biboonagizi Seventeen years old
ashi nishwaaso biboonagizi Eighteen years old
ashi zhaaNgaso biboonagizi Nineteen years old  
niishtana biboonagizi Twenty years old

                                                            Note: biboonagizi refers to a winter year  
                                                            (Must be written as one word)

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