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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.

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".