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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

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".