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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

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".