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my musket is good ʃibɑrēse ʃɑmĭnɑ ʃinēne many guns psibɑrēse psinyi'nge our guns psibɑrēse psɑ:hĭnɑ thy [[strikethrough]]yours[[/strikethrough]] guns psibɑrēse psɑ:wēnɑ my guns psibɑrēse psɑ:mĭnɑ your guns psibɑrēse psɑ'ŋwinɑ his gun ʃibɑrēse ʃɑnɑ'dĭɑ his guns psibɑrēse psɑnɑ'dĭɑ their guns psibɑrēse psɑwɑwɑnyɑ:nɑ the father of these persons ɑrɑroi'yenɑ wɑ wɑnūnɑ wɑ:yĕnɑ (or simply) ɑrɑroiwɑ:yĕnɑ [[strikethrough]]our father[[/strikethrough]] our father in heaven erɑroi'hĕnɑ ʃikwe'mbu Verbals. I am old (?) diʃkosɑ'nɑ I am sick dɑ:wɑboɑ: My father is old, your father is young (i.e. my f. is [[underline]]older[[/underline]] than yours) ɑrɑroi'menɑ okosehēli, ɑrɑroi'yenɑ wɑi-impūri I am good (or well(?) mentɑha'nyɑ How are you? wɑh[[ɔ:?]]nyi how is your father? ɑrɑroi'yenɑ ewu tōmi how is your mother? enyinwɑ:wenɑ wɑh[[ɔ:?]]nyi? I am hot mendɑhīsæ you are hot wenɑ wɑhīsɑ It is hot (the weather) kuninyukūku It is cold kuniʃiɑ'mi It will be cold to-morrow mundzūku kuniʃirɑ'mi It is cold to-day yɑmūnχlɑ " It was cold yesterday ɑtōlo koeniʃira'mi
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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".