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[[a table with two columns]]
[[first column]]
2 Milk     ovēre

4 Nose     enyūŋ
2 neck or throat     osīngo
1 nation     mɑ:nu
3 north (?)     uteë'ke

2 Read     ondʒīlɑ
1 Rainbow     oɑre'nte

1 Skin     osītu
7 Sun     utɑ'ngɑ
5 stars     olombūngɑlū
3 soul (?)     tʃimūnu
2 slave     upīkɑ
4 south (?)     utɑ'ni
6 stone     ēuwe

3 Tongue     elimī; elekɑ'lɑ
1 teeth     owɑ:iy[[ɑ?]]
2 thief  (?)  otʃimūnu
4 tree    ūti

Uncle     mɑ:nu
Village    otʃikɑ'nju
Woman    uk[[a̧]]'i
3 water    owɑ:wɑ
5 wound    epūtɑ
1 war    oītɑ
2 warrior     ho'ŋsi
4 wind    ofērɑ
[[second column]]
year     ulīmɑ


One    mōsi
two    vɑ:li 
three     tɑ:tu
four     kwɑnɑ
five     tɑ:nu
six    pɑ'ndu
seven    pɑnduɑ'li
eight     kienɑ:nɑ
nine     kiēkŭi
ten     kuī
eleven     kuī ūmɑ mōsi
twelve     " " wɑli, etc.

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".