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[[a table with two columns]]
[[first column]]
3 Right hand     moɑ-dīdi
4 roof    vɑmūru
2 rich    [[ur?]]ērɑ
1 rain     būlɑ
5 run (v.)      kɑ:di

5 Slave     [[underline]]kɑ:fre[[/underline]], bītshu, kɑpōru
8 soul (?)    ɑzī[[n?]]su
1 shoulder    etūri
4 skin     mɑkɑ:bɑ
3 sing     nyīmbu
2 sheep     `mbūzi
7 small     eŋoŋo[[n?]]o
6 sleep (v)     dinōgonɑ
sun    nzūɑ
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5 Tongue     ŭnlūmī
1 teeth     mēnu
4 toes     kɑta:
g town     mŭōdi
2 thief      wīyɑ
3 this      ēgi
3 Woman     mkɑ:zi
2 white people     ɑ:zūngo, muzūngu
4 wound     elōdɑ
1 warrior     mulūbɑ  ko'ndo
water    m[[ɑ:?]]si

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to sleep     dinōgonɑ
I slept     mīʊ du-ūgonɑ
I will sleep there     mīɑ dīguni lōkile
run    kɑ:di
run quick     tɑmɑ-[[g?]]ɑ viɑ dīdi

give me bread    divɑi[['?]] mūkɑ:te'

[[second column]]
Numerals.
One     mōsi, mōðo
Two    mbīri, mīli, vīri
Three     virɑ:ru
Four     vīnɑi' or tʃinɑi'
Five     vitɑ:nu
Six     nɑmōsi[['?]]
Seven    nɑvīri
Eight     nɑvirɑ:ru
Nine    nɑvinɑi
Ten    kūmi

House    nyūmbɑ
2 houses     nyūmbɑ bīni
three houses  nyumbɑ virɑ:ru
six "       nyumbɑ  nɑ mōðo
seven       nyumbɑ nɑvīri

one door     mulɑ:[[g?]]u mōðɑ

Pronouns
I (?)     ndīni or mīu
thou (?)    īŭwe or oēyu
he (?)    ōdu or ēgi
you & I      oēyu nɑ mīu
my father    bɑ:bɑwɑ'ngɑ
my slave    bītʃuɑ'ngɑ
your slave     bītʃuɑ'tu
his slave     [[strikethrough]]bitcuɑtu[[/strikethrough]] bitʃusɑ'ku

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I have a headache, mūsŏlo no dīpɑ
" " pain in finger, ebūno dīverĕɑ

Transcription Notes:
The apostrophe preceding the word for sheep is different from the stress mark character. The m is a syllabic consonant? ... Hints for transcribing the phonetic symbols in this document: 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".