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Bengēlɑ
from Vīye or Bihe.
[[a table with two columns]]
[[first column]]
1 Arm    okuōku
3 axe    ondyɑoīti
2 arrow    uso'ngo

2 Beard     orongie're
7 breast    onēte
1 back    onyīmɑ
3 belly     īmo
4 body     eti'mbɑ
5 bone    ekēpɑ
6 bow     ōkondʒi

Child     umɑnē, ūmɑ:lē
chin     otiyēle; okiyēlɑ
city     oikɑ'ntyu; mbɑ:rɑ
cousin     mɑndĭɑ'ngɑ
cow     ongo'mbi

Devil    oh[[ō̧]]si 

1 Ear     okūtui
5 eye     īsu
6 eye-brow     okiko'ngo
3 enemy      wɑkɑso'ngo
4 evening     oŋo'nosī
2 egg     iɑ'ti

5 Fire     ondɑ:lu
2 father     tɑ:tē 
1 face     okipɑ're, okipɑ'lɑ
3 fingers     oyimuīni
[[second column]]
8 [[strikethrough]]7[[/strikethrough]] foot     orupɑ'i, orumɑ:hi
4 finger-nails     olondiɑ:lɑ
4 friend     ukokɑ'mbɑ
  "        inɑkuyusōmɑ
7 fly     olūnyi
6 fish     olūsi

God     īlu

7 Heaven     īlu
5 Head     ūtue
1 Hair    ogīsɑ'me, kisɑ'me
9 Hand    ēkɑ
3 " right     ondĭo'
4 " left     epīni
6 Heart     ūtīmɑ:
8 house     o'ndʒo or o'ndĭo
9 husband     [[v?]]eiɑ:

King     osōmɑ:
knee     ongōlo

Land     ōshi, ēwe
Leg     okūlō

1 Man     urūmē; ulūme
3 Moon     osɑi; ute'k[[o?]]
4 mother    mɑi
5 mouth     omērɑ

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".