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[[A table with two columns]]
[[first column]]
2 horse        mbūlu     
[[strikethrough]]  hated  (?)   kusuīlɑ [[\strikethrough]]   
  hear (v)     ɑnībuɑ    

Iron           utɑ:li 
                        
2 King    mɑ:mbu, mfūmu      
3 knife        kipɑ'nga   
1 kill         kumūra    

1 Land     mɑ:b[[v?]]u; pɑ:nsi
2 Leg     mule'ng[[e?]]
3 lightning     nzɑ:zŭĭ
4 love  (?)   gwamūnɑ

1 Man     moɑmūnɑ
6 mother     mɑ:ü
4 moon     moēzŭi
7 mouth     mulōmu
3 milk     mɑ:sχi, mukɑ:kɑ
5 morning     paiē[[ɣ?]]ĭɑ
2 marriage     kusuīlɑ

7 Nose     [[mp`?]]hūnu
4 night     nyenyēzŭi
3 Neck     kōsŭi
2 near     pɑfūpi
6 noon     tsigɑ:ti
1 Nat[[ion?]]  (?)   nhūku
4 night     o[[nasal "s"]īku
5 no  (?)   [[ni?]]lɑ'mbɑ
                       
[[second column]]
2 Oxe            ŋōmbi
1 old            mukɑkūlu

1 Path, road,    nzīrɑ 
2 people         ɑwɑ:nt'hu
3 pig            χūmbɑ

1 Rain           moūrɑ
5 robber   nt[[`?]]hōsŭi, bɑ:vɑ
2 rainbow        nyɑdzīmu  
4 river, lake  lūdzi, zambēzi
3 red  (?)   musɑ:wɑ
6 run     kunonōnɑ

16 Sun     dzūɑ
10 smoke    oūsŭi
12 soul (?)   kufɑ:
6 slave,     muzīmbɑ, mungwɑnɑwɑ:dʒi
7 slave, young    bīshu
1 salt     mūn[[y?]]u
3 sheep     mb[[ū?]]zi
11 snake     nzōkɑ
8 sleep     tŭlu
9 small     kɑn[[y?]]ɑn[[y?]]ɑ:e
15 strong     kɑkhōlu
14 stone     būwe
4 silver     ntōbvi
5 sing     ɑnie'mbɑ
13 speak     kuseverɑ
2 see     ɑkɑkūrɑ

Transcription Notes:
This page contains an "s" marked as nasalized. IPA suggestions? 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".