From: "Brian Charging Cloud"
To: Mitakuyepi
Subject: lakota iyapi
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 08:49:46 -0600

Mitakuyepi  (all my relatives)
 
Here is daily e-mail in Lakota
 
1.  male speaker:  yanuwan oyakihi hwo? (can you swim?)
            
            female speaker:  yanuwan oyakihi he?     Ya-nu-wan
o-ya-ki-hi
 
yanuwan:  you swim
oyakihi:  can you
hwo and he:  male and female gender endings (question)
 
2.  male speaker:  wanuwan owakihi yelo (I can swim)
 
            female speaker:  wanuwan owakihi ksto   wa-nu-wan o-wa-ki-hi
 
wanuwan:  I swim
owakihi:  I can
yelo and ksto:  male and female gender endings
 
3.  male speaker:  wanuwan owakihi sni yelo (I cannot swim)
 
            female speaker:  wanuwan owakihi sni ksto (I cannot swim)
wa-nu-wan  o-wa-ki-hi sni
 
wanuwan:  I swim
owakihi sni:  I cannot
yelo and ksto:  male and female gender endings
 
anpetu waste yuha po
 
Bryan Charging Cloud
Director, Lakota Language Institute