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[[a table with two columns]]
3 skin     kɑ'ndæse

Tongue     didīmu
teeth     mɔ:nu
thief     bɑ:vɑ
town     buhūntɑ

Virgin     mɑkɑdziɑ'ngo

White man     ɑzūngo
woman     mkɑ:zi
war (?)     kulɑsɑ:nɑ
water     mɑ:t[[es?]]i
wound, blow     tʃilo'ndɑ
warrior     gho'ndo

One     pōsi
Two     pīri
Three     tɑ:tu
four     n[[ɑ:?]]i
five     ʃɔ:nu
six     tɔnh[[ɑ:?]]tu
seven     tʃinōmɑ
eight     se're
nine     fe'mbɑ
ten     kūmi
twenty    mɑkumɑ-vīri
thirty     mɑkumɑ-tɑ:tu
[[second column]]
Plurals, etc.
Man     moɑmūnɑ
men     ɑmūnɑ

Woman     mkɑ:zi
women    ɑkɑ:zi

Eye     disu
eyes    mɑ:tsu

tooth     nzīnu
teeth     mɑ:nu

Hand     [[strikethrough]]ny[[/strikethrough]] nzɑ'njĭɑ
hands     mɑ:njĭɑ
right hand   nzɑ'njĭɑ ɑdīdi
left "     nzɑ'njĭɑ [[r?]]ɑdzērɑ

Shoulder     pēŏɑ
shoulders     mɑpēŏɑ

bone     fūpɑ
bones    mɑfūpɑ

House     nyumbɑ
two houses   nyumbɑz evīri
my house     nyumbɑyɑ'ngo
my houses     nyumbɑzɑ'ngo

my slave     bitʃ[[u?]]ɑ'ngo

I     īne
thou   īue
he    ūle
we    īfe
you     īmuɑ
they     wɑ:li

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".