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Mundʒōlɑ. [[a table with two columns] [[first column]] Arm mīø 2 Beard ndēlu 8 [[strikethrough]] boday [[/strikethrough]] body ngūto 5 black ipī 4 bird n[[y?]]ūni 6 blood mɑkilɑ: 7 boat bwɑ:tu 3 belly milɑ: 1 back mbīhɑ 1 Child bʊkæuke' 2 chin yelēlo 3 city mbē 2 Dead oɑ:koɑ 1 day kɑrɑmūi 3 door gedʒōbo 2 Earth nshī 4 eye mēhû 1 ear mɑ:tʃŭi 3 egg bī 4 Fire mbɑ: 2 father tɑ:tɑ, mŏæpfū 1 face bosū 3 fingers medī[[tilde "ʊ"]] 6 foot bitɑ'mu 5 fish wɑntshū God iūlu girl moɑ:o wɑ:budi gold mpūtu [[second column]] great uonēne Heaven nkītɑ head mōtŭc' hair mfū hand bike' hens ntʃûhû house njō Iron mbō King mungō knife mbīeli Lightning ndēli little mʊkɑwkē leg mīlu Man bɑrɑ, bɑro moon ntʃūi mother mɑ:mɑ mouth mŏɑ:nyŭɑ: marriage ɑbɑ:lɑ Nose mɑyūlu neck nkīu night mpûbī no ēɣi Oxe mpɑ:hɑ oranges iōe Priest ngɑ: Red nkɑ:me rain muōlɑ
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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".