Is this a Lakota sentence?

["Alfred W. Tüting"]

> Misun oglu waste maka sitomni yalo
It looks like Lakota (primarily because I recognize waste or "good" and 
maka or "earth" as being Lakota), but the rest I'm not so sure about. Is 
it perhaps because of mis-spelled words? <<


Yes it is! But I'd guess it should be rather:

"Misun, oglu waste maka sitomni yelo!"
[misuN' oglu' was^te' makxa' sito'mni yelo']

which I'd - quite hesitantly - translate as:

"My younger brother, good luck throughout (the) earth (male speech)!"

oglu - luck, fortune; to befall one
(so MAYBE: 'oglu waste' is meant as 'good luck' - which I'd judge as an 
Anglicism)

sitomni - all over, throughout

Please don't ask wether or not this is good Lakota. (or my translation 
is erroneous :-( ).


Toksa ake


Alfred