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[[a table with two columns]] [[first column]] year mvōɑ yesterday mɑzɑ:o yes koshiɑ'm kie'n[[e?]]-mue'ne Numerals. One Mōshi Two Kiɑ:di, iɑ:li three tɑ:tu four uwɑ:ni, wɑ:nɑ five itɑ:nu, tɑ:nu six sɑmɑ:nu seven sɑmboɑ'di, sɑmbɑ:li eight nɑ:ki nine voɑ:, īvŏɑ ten kūmi, kūnyi eleven kumi nɑ mōshi twelve kumi nɑ giɑ:di twenty makumi-iɑ:di thirty mɑkūmi-ɑtɑ:tu One alone --- limōshi [[second column]] Plurals. Man diɑ:lɑ men mɑ:lɑ Woman muhētu women ɑhētu Eye dēsu ^[[2]], līsu ^[[1]] eyes mēsu ^[[2]], mɑlīsu ^[[1]] Ear dītŭi ears mɑ:tŭi Arm, hand kuɑ:ku ^[[2]] arms, hands mɑ:ku ^[[2]] four arms mɑ:kuɑ:-wɑ:nɑ ^[[1]] House nzō houses nzōji [[a bracket encloses all the entries relating to birds]] Many birds, njīlɑjɑvūlu ^[[2]]; tujilɑ:to-ɑvūlɑ ^[[1]] Bird njīlɑ birds njīlɑj' two birds, njīlɑjiɑ:di ^[[2]], tujilɑ'to-iɑ:li ^[[1]] Egg dī-i eggs mɑ:-i Stone dīūwe ^[[2]], liūwe ^[[1]] Two stones mɑ:-ūwe-iɑ:li ^[[2. 1.]] [[strikethrough]]Three[[/strikethrough]]Four stones mɑ:-līuwe-wɑnɑ ^[[1]] One dog kizɑ:lu-kimōʃi ^[[1]] two dogs izɑ:lu-iɑ:li ^[[1]]
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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".