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[[a table with two columns]] [[first column]] 1 Teeth mɑ:nu 5 tongue ulīmi 6 tree mūti 9 thunder [[v?]]ūmɑ 2 that [[u?]]]ūyu 3 the[[re?]] ɑnihɑ'[[m?]]be 2 Water mɑ:dzi 6 Woman nkɑ:zi, mutʃiembēre 2 white ngūo 1 walk, go kufɑ'mbɑ 3 white man muzūngo 4 " woman dōnɑ (donnɑ) 5 wind tūtu [[strikethrough]]white ngūo [[/strikethrough]] yes ndɑ:u Numerals. One Pōsi Two pīri three tɑ:tu four kīnɑ five sɑ:nu six ɑnhɑ:tu seven kinōme eight se're nine fe'mbɑ ten [[l?]]ūmi [[second column]] Plurals. Eye dīsu eyes mɑtsu Egg dzɑ:e eggs mɑ:e Finger kɑn[[tilde "ē"]]shi fingers dun[[tilde "ē"]]shi Bone fūpɑ bones mɑfūpɑ Bird kɑdʒīri birds tutʃīri Man moɑmūnɑ Men wɑmūnɑ Pronominals. House nyūmbɑ my house (?) nyumbɑyɑ:ki thy " (?) nyumbɑyɑ'ngo his nyumbɑyɑ'ko our (?) nyumbɑy[ä?]tu Knife kipɑngɑ my knife (?)kipɑngɑ-kiɑ'ngo his " (?)kipɑ'ngɑ-kiɑ'ki Adjectives a great house nyūmbɑ χūlu
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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".