From: "Brian Charging Cloud"
To: Mitakuyepi
Subject: lakota iyapi
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 15:02:27 -0600

Mitakuyepi  (all my relatives)
 
Here is daily e-mail in Lakota
 
1.  Male speaker:  tap yaskata hwo?  (do you play basketball?)
 
            female speaker:  tap yaskata he?   Tap (guttural T)
ya-shka-ta
 
tapskata:  basketball
yaskata:  do you play
 
 
2.  male speaker:  han, tap skatapi wastewalake yelo  (yes, I like
basketball)
 
            female speaker:  han, tap skatapi wastewalake ksto  Han
(nasal N) shka-ta-pi washte-wa-la-ke
 
han:  yes
tap skatapi:  playing basketball
wastewalake:  I like
yelo and ksto:  male and female gender endings
 
3.  male speaker:  miseya, lila tapskatapi wastewalake yelo (me too, I
really like basketball)
 
            female speaker:  miseya, lila tapskaapi wastewalake ksto
mish'eya (glottal stop)
 
miseya:  me too
lila:  very/really
 
anpetu waste yuha po
 
Bryan Charging Cloud
Director, Lakota Language Institute