From: "Brian Charging Cloud"
To: Mitakuyepi
Subject: lakota iyapi
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 16:54:19 -0600

Mitakuyepi  (all my relatives)
 
Here is daily e-mail in Lakota
 
1.  male speaker:  joe emaciyapi na tanyan iyuha wanciyankapi yelo(my
name is joe and I am glad to see all of you)
 
            e-ma-chee-ya-pi  taN-yaN (nasal N)  wa-cheeN-yan-ka-pi yelo
 
emaciyapi:  my name is
na:  and
tanyan:  well (glad)
iyuha:  all
wanciyankapi:  see all of you
yelo:  male gender ending
 
2.  female speaker:  jean emaciyapi na tanyan iyuha wanciyankapi ye(my
name is jean and I am glad to see all of you)
 
3.  ina waye kin (name) eciyapi na ate waye kin (name) eciyapi ye/yelo.
(name) tiospaye ematanhan ye/yelo.
 
            (my mother's name is (name) and my father's name is (name of
father).  I am from the (name of tiospaye)
 
ina:  Mother
ina waye:  my Mother
kin:  the
eciyapi:  name
na:  and
ate waye:  my Father
tiospaye:  family name/originally blood relatives/today there are 12-14
active tiospaye on the Pine Ridge Reservation.
ematanhan:  from
 
anpetu waste yuha po  (have a good day)
 
Bryan Charging Cloud
Director, Lakota Language Institute