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Musēnɑ [[a table with two columns]] [[first column]] 1 Arm bōku 4 axe hūkŭæ 2 alive ɑlīpo 3 all (?) wɑ:ntu wɑnihɑ'mbɑ 11 Bone fūpɑ 2 bad mulōwi 13 brother kuluɑ'ngo 3 beard ndev' or ndevf' 10 body moīli, tūpi 1 back kutsūli 4 belly nūmbɑ 9 blood molōpɑ 6 bird kɑdʒīri 7 birth mukɑ:zuɑ:ki 8 black (?) mutʃembēre 5 better mōiɑwɑ'ki 12 bread mŭkɑ:ti 14 buttocks tɑ:ku 2 Child moɑ'nɑ 4 city mūyi 1 canoe ngɑrɑ:wɑ, bɣɑ:lu/bŏɑ:lu 5 cock dzo'mbɑ 3 chin dīgpi 2 Day sigɑ:ti 3 Dead, to die kūfɑ; [[strikethrough]]s[[/strikethrough]]ɑ:fŏɑ 10 drink (to) kūmɑ 6 devil kɑro'mbo 8 door (valva) sɑ:sɑ 9 door (porta) sūɑ 7 dog (?) mukɑ: 4 dead man mbōlɑ 5 dead woman nyūi [[second column]] 1 dance (to) kūbzɑ 4 Eye (pofo) dīsu 1 Ear mɑ:tχi; mɑkūtu 3 Egg dzɑ:e 2 eat (v) kūdiɑ 3 Father tɑ:tɑ; bɑ:bɑ 7 Fire muōto; [[strikethrough]] mulīlo [[/strikethrough]] [[margin note connecting the stricken word to the same word given for "few" below]] [[gen.?]] ? 1 Face (?) mɑ:tsu 5 finger kɑn[[tilde "ē"]]shi 6 finger-nails ntʃɑ:lɑ 9 fly (s) mzī 8 fish nsōmbɑ 4 few mulīlo [[margin note connecting this word to the same word given, then stricken, for "fire" above]][[gen.?]] ? 2 far gutɑ:li 3 God nzīmu 5 good anīpɑ 1 girl mutsigɑ:nɑ 7 great nenēpɑ; k'hūlu 4 gold mukūɑ 6 grass ūskɑ 2 go ndūkɑ 4 Heaven nzīmu 1 Hair nsīngi; tsīsi 3 heart ntīmɑ; muōyo 2 head sōro or sōlo 6 house nyūmbɑ 5 hen nkūku
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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".