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Takwɑ:nɑ (On the river, above Sena) [[A table with two columns]] [[column left]] 1 Arm mōnu 2 arms (?) mɑdɑmīli 3 arrow ūrɑ 10 Brother lɑleɑ'ngo 8 boy moɑ'nɑ-[[underline]]kɑfre[[/underline]] 3 beard de'vu, erēlu 1 back odūni 4 belly mīmbɑ 6 bone mɑgogōdo 5 blood mulōvɑ 6 bow (same as arrow) ūrɑ 2 bark of tree mɑ:kɑmbɑ 9 bread mūkɑ:te' Child moɑ'nɑ-[[underline]]negeri'nyo[[/underline]] Dance (to) oketɑ door mulɑ:gu 1 Ear mɑ:ru 3 eye (?) mēto 4 eyes (?) kanōnɑ 5 eye-brow ekɑ:pī 2 elephant ŭndĭōvo 6 Fire mōto 3 father bɑ:bɑ 1 face (?) ekōvo 9 forehead eūdyĭ 5 finger kɑ:tɑ: 8 foot (same as leg) medō (?) 7 flesh nyɑ:mɑ 10 friend mbɑlēɑwɑ'ngɑ 4 field mudɑ:mbo [[second column]] 2 falsehood ōtɑmbi 3 God mulūngo 2 girl moɑnɑ - mukiɑ'nɑ 1 garden mūdɑ 4 great edumōɑ 5 Heaven nzūlɑ 3 Head mŭsōro 1 hair mɑtĭ'li 2 hand mōnu 4 heart mūrĭmɑ: 6 house nyūmbɑ 7 hunger (?) dɑ:lɑ King mɑfūmu knee kokōtekwɑ: Land vɑtī leg (?) medo' 1 Man moɑmūnɑ, ^[[(mulōboɑnɑ]] 3 Moon moēri 4 mother m'mɑ: 5 mouth mulūmu 2 [[strikethrough]] mukɑ:kɑ [[/strikethrough]] milk mukɑ:kɑ 3 Nose mūlu 2 neck ekōtī 1 nation, people, (?) tshikūndɑ 2 People ɑ'tu 3 poor kɑnētu 1 pain dinō-bulērɑ
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1. This document makes an important distinction between two different ways of writing the letter a (a vs. ɑ), even in the case of diacritic marks. DO NOT disregard this distinction. Enter the appropriate character if it appears without diacritics. For [[macron over "ɑ"]], enter "ɑ:". For [[macron over "a"]], enter "ɔ:". For [[breve "ɑ"]], enter "æ". For [[breve "a"]], enter "ă".
2. The apostrophe-like characters that appear above/just after some letters are stress marks that follow the stressed syllable. They can be represented with a single quote/apostrophe.
3. Some letters have what appears to be a vertical tilde underneath. These indicate nasal pronunciation but how they should be typed depends on the letter. Vowels can be represented by the tilde diacritic over that vowel except in the case of ɑ and ʊ. These can be represented as [[tilde "ɑ"]] and [[tilde "ʊ"]]. When this symbol appears under an "n" it represents the nasal "n" as in sang, and it should be entered as "ŋ", NOT "ñ" which represents a different sound. When it appears under a c, it is NOT a c-cedilla, but instead refers to the sh sound which is represented by the modern symbol "ʃ".