Spoken Word Help
First Package
Sičháŋǧu
Si čháŋ ǧu
The Burned Thighs, also known as the Brulé, are one of seven Lakota tribes.
proper name
  • Burned Thighs (Tribe)
  • Brulé (Tribe)
Related
sičháŋ
noun
  • thigh (outside of the thigh)
Related
si
noun
  • one's foot
  • paw
  • hoof
  • foot of a bird
čháŋ
noun
  • wood
  • tree
ǧú
stative verb (Valency 1)
  • to be burned on the surface
  • scorched

Practice

The aŋ is a nasalized vowel sound.
Si čháŋ ǧu
Examples
áŋpa
impersonal verb
  • it is daytime
  • it is daylight
  • it is it is dawn
noun
  • dawn
  • daylight
The ǧ makes a gutteral sound.
Si čháŋ ǧu
Some more practice for the ǧ sound.
ǧa ǧe ǧi ǧo ǧu

Transliterate (Lakota language)

Deloria (deloria)
Manhart (manhart)
RST (rosebud)
Txakini (txakini)
Ullrich (ullrich)
White Hat (whitehat)