Thursday, July 22, 2010

How do you properly pronounce Anpaytoo and Hantaywee ? They are both native american names.?

I'm very much a novice (so if someone fluent comes along, give them the 10), but they look like phonic spellings of Lakota or Dakota ('Sioux') words.





The first is probably Anpetu (day), but said pretty much (minus their accent) how you have it spelled there (ahn-pay-too, soft 't', more like a 'd' sound).





Hit the audio next to the sun picture...like that, minus the "wi"


http://www.inext.cz/siouan/ALPHABET/alph...





The second I can't figure out, but looks written phonetically as well. (Probably a soft first 'a' as in previous word, similar first syllable but with an 'h' sound added to the start.)

kumquat care

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