From: "Brian Charging Cloud"
To: Mitakuyepi
Subject: lakota iyapi
Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2007 16:46:56 -0600

Mitakuyepi  (all my relatives)
 
Here is daily e-mail in Lakota
 
1.  tanhansi, hogan yata hwo?  (cousin, do you eat fish?)
 
            Tan-han-shi  ho-Gan (guttural G) yata hwo?
 
tanhansi:  male cousin
hogan:  fish
yata:  do you eat
hwo?  male gender ending (question)
 
2.  han, lila hogan wastewalake yelo  (yes, I really like fish)
 
            han  li-la hoGan (guttural G) washte-wa-la-ke yelo
 
han:  yes
lila:  very/really
hogan:  fish
wastewalake:  I like
yelo:  male gender ending
 
3.  tanhansi, watohan hokuwa unyin kte lo  (cousin, we will go fishing
someday)
 
            tan-han-shi  wa-to-han  ho-koo-wa  ooN-yeeN (nasal N) kte lo
 
tanhansi:  male cousin
watohan:  someday/when
hokuwa:  fishing
unyin:  we (will) go
kte:  will
lo:  male gender ending
 
anpetu waste yuha po  (have a good day)
 
Bryan Charging Cloud
Director, Lakota Language Institute