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Substantive forms.
The house of the king     intsi'nzɑ yɑhōosi, iīngĭo yɑhōosi
the king's houses     tīngĭo tɑhōosi
a hen's egg     mɑnd'ɑ yɑhūku
my father's house     eīngu yɑrɑroi'mĕnɑ
the door of my house     inyɑngwɑ yɑīngĭo yɑ:menɑ
the father of [[strikethrough]]Kambin[[/strikethrough]]Wenkambin     ɑrɑrō Wenkɑ'mbin
king of the country    ihoōsi i ɑmesɑ:vɑ

Pronominals
I    mīnɑ:
thou     wēnɑ:
he     līɑ:
we     hīnɑ:
you     wēnɑ:
they     lɑwɑ:yɑ, ɑnɑndūɑ

my father     erɑroi'mĕnɑ
his father ([[strikethrough]]your[[/strikethrough]]) (thy)     eraroi'ĕnɑ
your father     erɑroi'wenɑ ye lūi
our father     erɑroi'hĕnɑ

my knife     ifūmu kɑ:mĕnɑ
thy knife     ifūmu kɑ:wĕnɑ
his knife     ifūmu gɑ:ŋwehɑ:nɑ
our [[strikethrough]]knife[[/strikethrough]] knives     mɑfūmu yēhĭnɑ

my son     uŋwɑ'nɑ woi'mĕnɑ
my mother     mɑ:mɑnwoi'mĕnɑ
my wife     ɑnsɑtuwoi'menɑ
my hat     sinkoë'nkĭɑ ʃɑ:mĭnɑ
thy hat     sinkoe'nkĭɑ cɑ:wĕnɑ
the hat of my father   sinkoe'nkĭɑ cɑrɑroi'mĕnɑ
my two hats     psinkoe'nkiɑ psɑ'mĭnɑ de psivīre
where is your father     ekwīhi ɑrɑrōuwĕnɑ
[[strikethrough]]my g[[/strikethrough]]

Transcription Notes:
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".