From: "Brian Charging Cloud"
To: Mitakuyepi
Subject: lakota iyapi
Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2006 16:23:49 -0700

Mitakuyepi (all my relatives)
 
Here is daily e-mail in Lakota
 
1.  Jerry, there is no word for "good by" in the Lakota language.
            
 
Toksa ake wauniyakapi kte lo. (we will see you again) (male gender
ending)
 
Toksa ake wauniyakapi kte (female gender ending)
 
Toksa: later/before long
Ake: again
Wauniyaka: see you
Pi: more than one
 
2.  Wopila tanka unkeniciyapi yelo. (a big thank-you from all)  (male
gender ending) (dot above T in tanka)
 
     Wopila tanka unkeniciyapi ye. (female gender ending)
 
Wopila: thank-you from all
Tanka: big
Unkeniciyapi: we say to you from all
 
Anpetu waste yuha po (have a good day)
 
Bryan Charging Cloud
Director, Lakota Language Institute