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Pronouns. I e'me, ɑ'me thou ēye, ɑbe (?) he mŭe'ne we ēsŭĕ ye ēnŭĕ they e'nyɑ [[underline]]My[[/underline]] house, īïnzu-yɑ'mi, nzo-yɑ'mi ^[[2]] enter my house, pōko lɑ mōnzo-iɑ'mi go out of my house, tūu lɑ monzo-iɑ'mi where is your house, konzo-yɑhe ɑgwīhi? where is your father's house, īnzu yɑ-shɑï ili gwīhi? " " " mother's " " yʊŋenɑi " " my house is small īnzu-iu'mi [[strikethrough]]iɑtelɑ:[[/strikethrough]] i tokoto'ko to build a house (?) ngūlimɑgūtu-ngɑ īnzu-yɑ'mi my house is great īïnzu-yɑ'mi i [[strikethrough]]tokoto'ko[[/strikethrough]] nēne your house nzo-iē ^[[2]] his house nzō-ye-mŭe'ne our house nzo-iētu What is your name? zinɑ:liɑ: iɑ'bi inɑ:ni? Who is there? I. ikili gōgo? ɑ:mē. Who are you? abi-nɑ'ni Who is there? kiekīe' ūlimɑgū zuēlɑ lɑ? It is I. ɑ'me ūlimɑgū zuelɑ. Who is this man? nɑ:nĭe' ʃingɑ: nō? My friend kɑmbɑliɑ'mi your friend kɑmbɑliɑ'i. My friend is good kɑmbɑliɑ'mi wɑwɑ'hi mūtŭɑ-s[[ɑ'?]]ngɑ. (mūtuɑ-sūngɑ: -- "[[g?]]ente cɑpɑz.") Where is your friend wīhu ɑ:shiɑ kɑmbɑliɑ'i I am well ɑme ngɑ kōlɑ Our country moshiētu
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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".