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Dead ʊfīle, ifīle I die ndɑ'fɑ you die yenō oɑ:foɑ he will be dead ɑtiʃɑ:nɑ ʃe-ifīre my father is dead ɑrɑroi'menɑ ifīle Eating ɑkūgiɔ I eat ndai'gĭɔ ?[[underline]]he[[/underline]] eats (?) weno wɑ:gĭɑ the fly eats ɑtino'ngɑse tɑ:gĭɑ we eat inɑ: hɑ:gĭɑ you eat wē mɑ:gĭɑ the pigs eat ɑtingūru etɑi'gĭɑ I will eat to-morrow tɑ:gĭɑ mundūku I have eaten digīri you have eaten wen' igīre the pig ^(? plu.) has eaten etingūru tingīre Rain mfūlɑ it is raining iɑ'nɑ mfūlɑ it was raining mfūlɑ iuɑ'nɑ or yuɑ'nɑ it will rain to-morrow mundūku mfūlu itɑ'nɑ I remember ndɑnɑkɑinyɑ you remember minendɑnɑkɑi'nyɑ I dance menʒĭɑ tcīnɑ I will dance to-morrow dɑkīnɑ mundūku Thank you odɑlɔ: Out of the house ɑhɑ:ngĭɑ. within the house nzēnɑ.
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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".