From: "Brian Charging Cloud"
To: Mitakuyepi
Subject: lakota iyapi
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 09:58:20 -0600

Mitakuyepi   (all my relatives)
 
Here is daily e-mail in Lakota
 
1.  Male speaker:  wanna yagni kta hwo?  (are you going home now?)
 
            female speaker:  wanna yagni kta he?
 
            wan-na ya-gnee
 
wanna:  now
yagni kta:  are you going home
hwo and he:  male and female gender endings
 
2.  male speaker:  hiya, mazaskanskan zaptan ki wagni kte lo (no, I am
going home at five o'clock)
 
            female speaker:  hiya, mazaskanskan zaptan ki wagni kte ksto
 
            hi-ya ma-za-shkan-shkan zap-tan ki wag-nee
 
hiya:  no
mazaskanskan:  time/clock
zaptan:  five
wagni kte:  I am going home
lo and ksto:  male and female gender endings
 
3.  male speaker: toksa ake wacinyankin kte lo (I will see you again)
 
            female speaker:  toksa ake wacinyanke kte ksto
 
            tok-sa-ake-wa-cin-yan-kin
 
toksa:  later (I will see you later/again)
ake:  again
wacinyankin:  see you
kte:  will
lo and ksto:  male and female gender endings
 
anpetu waste yuha po  (have a good day)
 
Bryan Charging Cloud
Director, Lakota Language Institute