From: "Brian Charging Cloud"
To: Mitakuyepi
Subject: lakota iyapi
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 16:47:24 -0700

Mitakuyepi (all my relatives)
 
Here is daily e-mail in Lakota 
 
1. anpehan wigliunkagapi na talo ohanpi unyutapi yelo/ye. . (today, we
ate fry bread and beef stew)
anpehan: today
wigliunkagapi: fry bread
na: and
talo ohanpi: beef stew (talo: beef/meat, ohanpi: boil/boiling)
unyutapi: we ate
yelo: male gender ending
ye: female gender endig
 
2. kapopapi na mni unyatkan pelo/pe.(we drink/drank pop and water)
kapopapi: soda/pop/coke/pepsi...
na: and
mni: water
unyatkan: we drink
pelo: male gender ending
pe: female gender ending
 
anpetu waste yuha po na tanyan gla po. (have a good day and a safe trip
home)
 
Bryan Charging Cloud
Director, Lakota Language Institute