From: "Brian Charging Cloud"
To: Mitakuyepi
Subject: Lakota Woglakapi
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 16:20:08 -0600

Mitakuyepi (all my relatives)
 
1.  male talk:  kola, yalowan oyakihi hwo? (friend, can you sing?)
 
     female talk:  maske, yalowan oyakihi he?
 
            Ko-la mash-ke ya-lo-wan 0-ya-kee-hi
 
kola:  friend/a special friend (male)
maske:  friend/special friend (female)
yalowan:  (you) sing
oyakihi:  can you 
 
2.  hiya, walowan owakihi sni yelo/ksto (no, I cannot sing)
 
            hi-ya wa-lo-wan o-wa-kee-hi shni
 
hiya:  no
walowan:  I sing
owakihi sni:  I cannot
yelo/ksto:  male and female gender ending
 
3.  aksaka (it is too bad)
 
anpetu waste yuha po (have a good day)
 
Bryan Charging Cloud
Director Lakota Language Institute
Oglala Lakota College