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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
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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".