From: "Brian Charging Cloud"
To: Mitakuyepi
Subject: lakota iyapi
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 15:51:38 -0700

Mitakuyepi  (all my relatives)
 
Here is daily e-mail in Lakota
 
1.  hinhanni kin hetanhan wetu kte lo/ksto  (tomorrow is the beginning
of spring)
 
            heen-han-nee kin he-taN-haN (nasal Ns) we-too
 
hinhanni:  tomorrow
kin:  the
hetanhan:  beginning (from that time on)
wetu:  spring
kte:  will/is
 
2.  itesniya?  (really?)
 
            ee-te-shnee-ya
 
3.  oksanksan etuwan yo/ye, wanna peji kin to yelo/ksto  (look aroung,
the grass is green now)
 
            ok-shan-kshan e-too-wan  wa-na Pe-ji To (guttural P and T)
 
oksanksan:  aroung
etuwan:  look
wanna:  now
peji:  grass 
kin:  the
to:  green  peji to: green grass
 
anpetu waste yuha po
 
Bryan Charging Cloud
Director, Lakota Language Institute