Hau Clive, thanks for your kind & prompt feedback (I only wonder why I'm unable to detect that Cheyenne site's author, despite searching quite a couple of its...
... Cheyenne. ... Ok this is totally what I can read and understand..LOL...it keeps coming back to me as... ok.. SA= red ia= to speak IWA/ Iwa-ah..=I speak ...
... Oiyahe: Wopidah tankah ...yes, Unfortunetly like i said onced lonng ago... My granma made us speak the English to her...and YES..Its very hard to try to...
Yes, I am a fluent speaker. ________________________________ From: oiyahe <oiyahe@...> To: lakhotaiyapi@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, October 31, 2008...
I'm not fluent--barely pidgin--but I want to learn. The trouble is that I have too many responsibilities to allow me to study. I hope to go live on a Rez next...
I post the things I do in English for that exact reason....someof the members lives are quite busy...mine for instance, and if you are not fluent....it is...
... Pilamayaye, Jonelle. I read every post, but I am still having a very hard time learning, other than words and simple phrases that I have memorized. I...
... study. ... lol.. its chilly here in colsumbus ohio.. but hey! it aint Coober Petey.LOL.. dang dina australia wambdacah wacin....heh heh.. just for them...
... learning style, I make more progress with my offline studies, by working with native speakers and hitting the textbooks. A more structured and disciplined...
hau khola, ... "lentävät". Colloquial?] ***yes, it is colloquial usage. Grammatically correct would be 'lentävät'. ... ***How about 'owihankesniyan un...
Hau Oiyahe, ... Wonah'un wan oyuha washte cha mayak'u kin he un philamayaye, khola. ... Yes, "it shall be unending", "it shall forever be such/of that sort",...
Han khola,I see your point. That would be awesome that fluentspeaker would give us such a lakota idiom. But I'm just afraid it ain't gonna happen, maybe on THE...
I reckon that'd be the literal version, khola - but that wouldn't mean anything much to a monolingual Finn, would it? Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'd be...
... From: mato.najin <mato.najin@...> Subject: [Lakota Iyapi] Finally a good rain! To: lakhotaiyapi@yahoogroups.com Date: Monday, November 3, 2008, 4:31...
... From: prairiefire50 <wakiyanihambdahwin@...> S ... Lets see, I think Im wrong. sorry.. had a TERRIBLE bad news day. ... [Non-text portions of this...
Greetings Is this right:: Okanketa wan waste magaju. Finally a good rain. Wayuopesa. snowwalker ... From: "prairiefire50" <wakiyanihambdahwin@...> To:...
Could it be; Hankeyas, wana magaju waste!--? ... ============= Greetings Is this right:: Okanketa wan waste magaju. Finally a good rain. Wayuopesa. snowwalker ...
He onah^'un washte lo, mitakuyepi. Sounds good, folks. There is also : Hankeya/ohanketa wana wakinyan agli na magaju thanka! [=At last/finally now a...
"Sail on, O Ship of State, Sail on, O Union strong & great! Humanity, with all its Fears, And all the Hope of future years, Is hanging, breathless on thy...
... quoted ... 2001nan. pi'e 9 pi'e 11 tsani co blanu .i re dilgaldi'u selpo'a loi vinji tsani co blanu .i blanu zmadu la jmeboirmarbis. * tsani co danmo beloi...
Clive: Not sure which poet wrote those great lines (Whitman?), Longfellow....(didn't know till I looked it up...) Also, you might (and others as well) be...
Mitch, sounds like a good reason to me, in fact you could be reading my mind. I have been studying at the Lakota language since I was 5 years old. My dad...
Hau Jonell, Stand outside and you can wash your feet, eh? Gee, how did you know that that's what Aussies do, when a drought gets broken! Wan, tokiyatanhan he...
Thanks, Cathy, I enjoyed that - As the Englishman abroad (& comedian), Stephen Fry is good value. For some peculiar reason, the combination of those...