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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 --- 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 --- 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 --- 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".