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[[a table with two columns]] [[first column]] 5 Mouth omēlɑ. ^[[2]]; munūɑ 2 milk mɑiyēni; mēli 3 moon mbēji; ngo'nde 1 man (zɑ'kɑrɑ)^[[2]] yɑ'kɑlɑ 4 mother (mɑ:mɑ)^[[2]] ngoɑ'mi 4 Nose muhōmbo 2 neck (ngūli) [[strikethrough]]no[[/strikethrough]] tʃingo 1 nation tʃi 3 night tɑngūfu 4 nose dinyūlu 5 no ? ngɑme-ɑme^[[2]] 1 Old kilūmbi 3 oxe (ngōmbi)^[[2]] 2 oranges muī 1 Path ɑnjīlɑ 2 priest (ŋɑŋɑnjɑ'mbi)^[[2]] 1 Rain (būlɑ)^[[2]] mvūlɑ 2 rainbow sɑ:ngɑngū 4 river mɑ:zɑ mɑngīji 3 red (tʃikusūgɑ)^[[2]] 3 Sky zūlu 7 stars tētembūlu 5 smoke mɑ:'kɑ:yɑ 6 snake nyōkɑ 4 sleep kulēkɑ 2 sing kwī-imbīli-kēnɑ 8 sun muinyi; ku'mbi; itɑ'ngŏɑ 1 sea (kɑlūngɑ)^[[2]] [[second column]] tongue (lɑ:kɑ)^[[2]] ndɑ:kɑ tooth dīnu thief, robber muīvi thunder nzɑ'ji tree mūti Woman mukētu, ndūmbɑ Warrior kilōrɑ water (mɑs')^[[2]] mɑ:zɑ walk (v.) ikwe'ndɑ kɑ'ngæli white (mundēle)^[[2]] Year mvōɑ yes ? (dɑkiēvɑ)^[[2]]
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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".