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Kɑmbindɑ [[a table with two columns]] [[first column]] Arm kōko 5 Boy tɑ:uze 1 beard kizēvo 6 breast tūlu 4 body nītu 2 black ndo'mbi 3 blue fīuze Child moɑ'nɑ chin bōbo cup ngūbɑ city tsĩ Daughter moɑnɑke'nto devil (?) nzumbī death foɑ: dead fūidi Eye dīsu ear kūtu eyebrow ndɑ:o eyelids nkɔ:ŋi elbow kinkōso Fire tuiyɑ: Father tɑ:tɑ face lūse finger le'mbe finger-nail nzɑ:lɑ foot kūlu [[second column]] Girl nu'mbɑ, mulēke God nzɑmbe ɑmpu'ngu green iɑŋkūnzo Heaven zūlu Head tū Hair tsūki hand kɑndɑ:se King fumɑ'ntsi Land tōto leg kintɑ'ngo life moi'yo Man iɑ'kɑlɑ moon ngōɑndē mother mɑ:mɑ mouth nuɑ: Nose mbūngo neck tsīngo no koɑ:ko Priest ngɑ:ngɑ Red boɑ:ki ribbon sɑ:dis
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".
