TUNIC Manual Translation

The in-game manual translated into English. Spoilers within!

Introduction

Text from the in-game manual translated into English (or more accurately, transliterated). For brevity I'm only including text that isn't already in English, modulo some headings to provide context. If you find any mistakes, let me know and I'll fix them!

Needless to say, but huge spoilers below! If you haven't beaten the game or worked out its puzzles on your own yet, I strongly recommend doing so before reading any of this. The satisfaction of doing so is well worth the effort in my opinion.

For other in-game text, see:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3003485891

Writing system hints

Here is a sequence of successive hints about how to interpret the game's writing system, based on this excellent comment from the discussion forums:

1. It is English.
   
2. It's not a letter-for-letter English alphabet cipher.
   
3. It's phonetic English, not written English.
   
4. Manual page 54 has a little Rosetta-stone in form of drawings and their glyph representation.
   
5. There is another Rosetta-stone in the game: The bad ending and in the good ending use either the Latin alphabet or the Tunic glyphs to display the game credits.
   
6. Each glyph represents either a vowel sound, a consonant sound, or both consonant and vowel.
   
7. Another little Rosetta-stone: the compass on the Lost Atoll map page. The glyph on each cardinal point represents the first phonemes of the corresponding cardinal point word in English.
   
8. The horizontal line in the middle of the glyphs is only used to delimit words, since this script doesn't make use of blank spaces. In some drawings and handwriting, it is omitted; this does not change the pronunciation.
   
9. Page 54 shows two groups of glyphs. Notice how the top group is only exterior edges, while the bottom group is only interior lines. What could these two groups be? (see hint number 6).
   
10. A ring sometimes appears below certain glyphs. Sometimes it doesn't. This alters in a simple way how these glyphs sound.
    
11. The exterior edges are vowel sounds and the interior lines are consonants.
    
12. Normally the glyphs are read consonant first, vowel second. The ring inverts the order of the consonant→vowel sound to be vowel→consonant.
    
13. The entry for page 54 in this guide gives the phonetic values of each glyph in the chart.

Cover

TUNIC
Secret Legend

Page 1

★
The softest feather,
corrected eleven times,
departed once more.

Page 2

Cards	20
Praying	23
The Far Shore	41

Page 3

A long, long time ago...
There lived a Civilization of great power.
They built a city, and within that city they built
a palace. They held sacred the secrets of
the Holy Cross, and understood the planar
nature of reality. They ventured to the far shore
and sought power from the spaces between.

As is usual, an alluring old power was discovered.
Fossils of self, annealed visions of the future,
entombed and cast into sarcophagi and buried.
A lever in the canonical plane, a store of
potential. Perhaps it is the fabled prize,
The Power To Defy Death.

Page 4

A Terrible Power Rises
The discovering Hero opened a tomb and revealed
a terrible truth. A Cathedral was built
to venerate this new origin of life, and the
faithful were granted the grace of holy oblivion.

The World Is Thrown Into Ruin
The lever overworked! The fulcrum shattered! A hole in
truth will thunder open and all manner of disquiet
contradictions will gnaw apart the canonical plane.
The thread is snagged into a squirming coil, with
no beginning and no end. Flee to your arks,
old ones, and become your predestined selves!

Page 5

A Prison & A Beacon
...but one must live outside the shivering ring,
The Heir seeking an Heir-To-The-Heir.
A beacon to bring about a ruin seeker.
To either grow strong and replace an ailing heir,
or to hold sacred Holy Cross, and ensure
their wisdom lives on.

Awaiting a Worthy Successor
Which will you be, ruin seeker? Have you arrived here
seeking treasure and glory? Or do you seek to
uncover deeper truths? Look carefully, for
The Golden Path lies everywhere...

Page 6

Canonical Plane - The Shadow Oubliette - The Far Shore

[right side innermost hexagon] The Heir

Page 7

Again the same battle,
fought uncountable times!

And so the cycle continues. Ruin seekers, drawn to
the beacon, are tested. Those who abandon their quest are
forgiven, and simply disappear.

Those who are strong enough to remember their true hero
selves will, through violence, begin the cycle anew.

Will you be the Heir-To-The-Heir, and
wait within the shadow oubliette? Before long a ruin seeker will
be drawn to you. Their gifts will recall your past life,
and you will grant them the same false hope you were given.

To break the curse, a ruin seeker must by some miracle
invoke a relic from beyond this plane...

Page 8

The Heir

Page 9

CONTINUE	Continue most recent file
NEW GAME	Begin a fresh quest
OPTIONS	Adjust settings
LOAD GAME	Go to SAVE DATA screen

OPTIONS
Adjust settings to customize
your play experience.

🦊👍
Options mean you can keep playing
if the challenge is too much right now.
You are allowed!!

SAVE DATA

🔶 Money	🌟 Harder quest
📄 Unknown...	⍰ ???

Select a file

Load file and
resume play!

DATA REMOVAL
Choose DELETE to remove
a file forever.

⍰ Whose is this!?

Page 10

Beginning your Adventure
A secret legend says that a great treasure lies in this far away land.
Maybe it is the power to defy death! Why do you seek this power, tiny one?
Time to begin your adventure! Here is what you will do...

RINGING THE EAST BELL

☐ East Forest	Enter the woods.
☐ Hero's Grave	A 🗡️ lies at the grave...
☐ Guard Captain	Powerful foe! Be careful!

RINGING THE WEST BELL

☐ Old House	You will need a key (🗝️)
☐ Flooded Well	p. 29
☐ Dark Tomb	Dark! Need a light...
☐ West Garden	p. 27
☐ ???

Page 11

🦊 Ruin seeker (you)

❔
Strange gate
to the far shore
📄 41

IMPORTANT!
Keep your eye on your
[STAMINA-POINTS!]
When you have 0 SP
you are in danger!
📄 16

Page 12

Controls

Focus LT
! Focus is crucial! 📄 14

Inventory / gear LB

Move LS

RT Shield

RB Potion 📄 17

X Y B Use item

A Roll, run, talk 📄 13

Page 13

A Button
This button has many uses.
One is secret, but if you read this book
you will learn it.

Talk
Talk to signs, doors, [&] more.

Pray
Forbidden technique.

Offer reverence to
the tombs of those
who came before.
📄 24

Roll
Press to roll!
Very very important
for surviving.

Press! A

You cannot be hit at
the start of the roll!
📄 14

Run
Press & hold the
button to run. It is
faster than rolling
over and over.

Press... A ...& HOLD

Page 14

LT Button
This button has one main use,
but it is a powerful one.
Use it all the time, ruin seeker!

Lock

FACE YOUR
ADVERSARIES
Hold this to focus
on a nearby foe.

FOCUS & EVADE
To roll and dodge while still
staying ready to strike.

FOCUS & BLOCK
To raise your shield and
face the foe.

Page 15

STAMINA-POINTS represent
your poise and strength to
perform certain actions. When you
evade or perform other moves, your
STAMINA-POINTS go down.
When at 0 SP, you can still
do many actions, but at a
disadvantage.

MOMENT OF SAFETY
At the start of evasion you have invulnerability
briefly, so evade at just the right moment!

STABILITY
Take enough hits and you will flinch! If a hit is
really big, you can even be knocked over.

The hidden STABILITY gauge is 25% of your total HP.

Page 16

With vigor
Use vigor to roll.
You are safe for a
tiny moment.

Found the shield? Block!
Vigor fills more slowly.
Hits will use up vigor.

No vigor(0%)
Oh no!
You ran out of vigor!
You can only hop and
are highly vulnerable.

Watch out!

[table, first column] Vigor

Page 17

SWORD
Is this the hero's blade?
Or a forgery?

STICK
Just a stick!

SHIELD
Left by a RUDELING
Use to deflect blows.

❄️ BOMB
Unstable powder made from
the fairy of the west garden.

💥 BOMB
Made from slorm, the
pudding that goes boom.

🔥 BOMB
Fire fire everywhere, and
ow ow ow ow ow.

KEYS
You need a key to open one of
the rare old doors. The key disappears...

FRUITS
Eat fruits to restore HP or MP. They
are gone forever, so snack sparingly.

HOT PEPPER/IVY
One is spicy, one is minty.
Gives a boost to ATT or SP.

EFFIGY
Betray for coins. Each betrayal is
sweeter than the last.

LURE
Doll of the beloved hero.
Foes will be tricked!

GOLDEN COIN
A special treasure that allows a wish.
Use at well to give to wish eater.

MAGIC ITEMS
Some items use the power of your soul.
MAGIC-POINTS refill when you rest, but
there is a finite number
of souls in the world.

Shows uses left. Even a
drop of MP is enough.

NOTE: HOLY CROSS is more than a mere item!

MAGIC POTION
Life blood of the hero. Quaff to restore
your will to go on. Mysteriously refills
whenever you touch a CHECK-POINT.

Find some and you get a free flask!

Offer up ash to make your magic
potions more potent!
It is said the ash of heroes
fortifies the blood.

Cards are ways to be inspired to
unusual greatness.
📄 20

Page 18

If you seek to increase your power...
Risk an offering to the heir

🔶 The price goes up each time...

As the shore bleeds one of falsehoods and memories,
the heir hungers for reminders of the corporeal world.
Offer these mementos and share a delusion of power.

Warning! Pilgrims to the shore are stripped of this false power. 📄 41

Page 19

OH NO!
Bad news! The ruin seeker has
run out of HEALTH-POINTS!

But wait!? A strange being has
given us another chance!

Such a debt is a dangerous thing to have...

What was but is now not
The ghostly form of an ECHO-OF-SELF.
Touch it to break its connection to this
cycle and let it drift back into the shore.
Be kind, as this is your fate as well.

Cards can change its nature...

"YOU CAN DO IT!"
Future cycles look back with faith,
knowing the course! Persevere and be sure
to boost your power despite the cost.

Page 20

Cards

Cards can grant powerful inspiration!
Change them often, depending on the
challenge you face.

1. Open the inventory
   
2. Choose the slot icon (⬚)
   
3. Choose a card to memorize

CYAN PERIL RING
Raises DEF when you are in PERIL.

INVERTED ASH
Quaffed potions restore MP instead of HP.

LUCKY CUP
Foes leave hearts to heal you a bit. Rare. (15%)

MUFFLING BELL
Sneak sneak sneak... Foes notice you less.

There are many more cards! What do they all do? It's a secret..! 📄51

Wells and coins
Granting wishes requires
payment, and further
inspiration requires wishes.
Those who wish enough can be
formidable indeed... but
to whom are you giving payment?

Choose wisely, ruin seeker!

Page 21

HINTS AND CLUES
Stumped? Here are some clues for you!
Try to help your friends if you can.

🦊💭I'm stuck!

I entered THE TEMPLEbut it was empty. What now?
Here is where a ruin seeker would place 3 KEYS. 🔴🟢🔵

Where are the keys? 🔴🟢🔵
You can't find any without prayer... try [obelisk]. 📄24

How do I get to THE RUINED ATOLL?
Traverse the far shore with [gate] and prayer.

What is the secret of The Golden Path?
Look to the stars, and to P.49.

The CHECK-POINT says «DEAD»!?
It must see to the core. Look for a nearby [obelisk]. 📄24

OLD BURYING GROUND is too hard! Why?
It is a place of despair. Only ghosts may enter.

Page 22

What's up with the DOOR IN THE MOUNTAINS?
All the clues you seek are here in these pages.

How do I defeat the heir?
Gather the relics from THE HERO'S GRAVE.

How do I open these doors?
Seek the HOLY CROSS.

Can I go back to how things were?
Perhaps there is a way. Maybe this is all a dream...

What's behind the waterfall?
Do you know of the FAIRIES?
Turn to P.47 and look carefully...

What's the next piece of the puzzle?
Every page has a secret, even this one.

How do I truly escape?
Share your wisdom and break the cycle.

I found a trophy. Can I see them all?
Yes, there is a place...

Pages 23 & 24

Do you know the
secret way? Go to the
Door in the Mountains
and check behind it...

Monastery
Potion

Fortress
HP

Garden
DEF

Forest
ATT

Library
MP

Swamp
SP

The secret of prayer
To pray, be still for a moment and rest.
Ruin seeker, press & hold A for a short time.
No holy being will ever hear you, but venerate those who
give of their core and awaken the tools of a lost age.

🦊💭 Praying...

Page 26

KEEP AN EYE ON YOUR BARS!
🟥 Your will to go on. Improve potions with
ash ([ash]) to gain more HP per sip.

🟩 If it's flashing, you're out of breath.
Remember, you take EXTRA DAMAGE! 📄16

🟦 The power of your soul. Using magic items
consumes it. Some foes leave their souls.

TIRED ALL THE TIME?
You can run!
Your STAMINA-POINTS refill, even when
running, so you can enter fights strongly.
Rolling everywhere will exhaust you!

Try new cards
Have you discovered how to
use cards? Be sure to make
wishes if you have coins.

USE YOUR ITEMS
Today is the rainy day, so don't hoard
valuable tools. Rewards await
those who use liberally.

USE SPECIAL TECHNIQUES
Roll and sword at the same time
to perform a fast stab.
NOTE: It uses STAMINA-POINTS

CHECK THE MAP
Someone has made maps for you!
There are secrets hidden on them,
so look carefully...
🦊 You are here

Page 27

Fairy FAIRIES

To the west of the great palace
are the gardens. Many paths are
broken, but there is a way.

MAGIC DAGGER
A magic item made from a fairy.
Use it to freeze foes with ice.

Page 28

RINGING THE WEST BELL
Can you see the bell, but not reach it?
Try going to the WEST GARDEN
via the DARK TOMB

Page 29

UNDER THE WELL
Flooded lair beneath the surface, filled with monsters.
Walking in water will slow you, but also some foes.
Watch out for what lies below...

TIP!
Use a shield!
(Watch your vigor!)

Page 30

& BENEATH THE EARTH
Beneath the earth are many
scary places.
Be sure to take a
LANTERN.

Below the fortress is a cave.

Page 31

One key to the shadow oubliette is guarded by the last great machine of war.
When the siege was done, this beast was coaxed into this lonely purpose.

Page 32

The last machine of war
Siege Engine

To the dark cave
p.30

Those who live in the fortress do not know the secrets of prayer.
Use your knowledge wisely, and who knows what you will find...

Prayer 📄24

[gate] To the far shore
[grave] To the hero's grave

Page 33

Under the library is the skeleton of a
great abbey that served as its annex.

Once, some others made this their home,
and built on the ruins.

Only flora and fauna live here now,
but the frogs may be on patrol...

Summoning the library path means
venerating to the 4 corners, so
take a knee!

Page 34

1 nor we		2 nor eas
	up
3 sou we		4 sou eas

Page 35

Odd Door Magic Orb
Rotate it around the forbidden axis and
partially summon a disquiet being.

Page 36

Many have sought the secrets of
this world, drawn by the great power
and other secret legends.

The Librarian has learned much,
including powerful sorceries. He makes
his home high above the clouds,
waiting for foolish ruin seekers to
bring him more pages.

Although powerful, his tragedy is his
belief that the Holy Cross resides
in the Cathedral.

He will never visit the far shore.

Page 37

Will stop at nothing
to obtain the 🔵.
She has long known
that it lies in
the Rooted Ziggurat
but has only now entered
its depths. It cost
many lives,
but any price would
be acceptable.

Page 38

MONASTERY
Once a place of worship for the gods thought to
live beneath the earth, it was abandoned when
the cathedral's influence reached its peak.

CAVITY
Exposed fossil that has dented a patch
of local truth out of the canonical plane.
Being near it does not hurt, but does instill
a terrible feeling of hopelessness.

THE ROOTED ZIGGURAT
A house for strange gods, exposed by
erosion and greed.

GUN
Powerful, but uses a lot of magic.
Savvy explorers have been known to
quest for this soon after their arrival.

LOWER MIASMA
The bottom of the quarry will sap your will
to go on, unless precautions are taken.
Were the rumors that “the air is poisoned”
misunderstood because of this miasma?

Page 39

FLEEMERS
Equipped in various ways.
The flesh may be
stripped away but the
will to fight is strong.

PHREND
A disquiet fragment
who lives in a skull
and wants to taste everything.

LOST ECHO
An ECHO-OF-SELF
from a past ruin seeker
whose owner gave up.
Watch and listen closely,
and release it from its agony.

💀 RIP
Around the cathedral is a
wasteland of graves.

Those who had remains to bury
after the final battle are laid here,
but many are not at rest.

Page 40

THE CATHEDRAL
The seat of power for the first heir

1 The sound of chanting in the air.
2 A large chamber, filled with the smell of incense.
3 A shaft descends into darkness. Activated by 10.
4 Doorway to eastern rooms.
4a A group of lost friends covet the elixir.
4b The baptismal font.
5 Upper balcony offers a view of the main hall.
6 In the library there is a double secret.
7 A rough hewn passage.
8 A moonlight bridge blocks access to a treasure.
9 The chalice/vessel.
10 Device to power the lift at 3.
11 Lift shaft.
12 Ruined chamber. Has checkpoint.
13 Gauntlet with 6 challenges.

Page 41

The Far Shore

The
Shadow
Oubliette

A key is no mere toy

Sword of the heir
[sword]

Stolen device 🕯️
[library]

Ruin seeker's arrival
[beach]

Page 42

Understanding the strange effects of the far shore

NORMAL
Offerings to the heir give power
in the corporeal realm.

In far shore/GHOST
You are a shadow of yourself,
and the false gifts of
the heir have no effect.

With hero relic
Attune to a true memory
of yourself, instead of a
pale retelling.
HP
Hero

How does a ruin seeker
become a hero?

Seek the 🕯️ p.23
and pray...

...to visit
The Hero's
Grave

& claim your
heroic past.

Page 43

The ruin seeker begins to understand the HOLY CROSS

Page 44

Much is hidden in this world,
bound behind the power of
the HOLY CROSS.

Prove to those who gave of their
core that you know of it deeply.

⬅️ Open the vaults left to help
wise ruin seekers.

✨ Free the souls that stayed behind to
guide you and receive their gift.

49 Follow THE GOLDEN PATH.

The monolith in
OVERWORLD

Pages 45 & 46

Take Your Rightful Place

Extinguish the beacon's
last spark and become
a fresh martyr.

Courage that is untempered
by kindness risks eating
itself forever...

OR

Share Your Wisdom

...Wisdom that is
untempered by kindness
is no wisdom at all.

Be free.

Page 47

Fairy souls are tucked away in all corners
of the world. They lock themselves in
gold chests, awaiting a clever ruin
seeker who knows the power of HOLY CROSS.

A hidden fairy will always leave a
trace of magic nearby. They await a
particular song and listen for it
eternally. Look around to find a
secret spell hidden in the world.

SEEKING-SPELL
Tiny false fairies will be drawn along
the small fold of local truth the
real fairy has created as a nest.

Page 48

SECRET GATHERING PLACE
But where do they go?
Find a special location
where all the freed fairies gather.

It is said they have a
"FINAL" TREASURE and
will only give it up
when a certain number of
their friends are freed.

Where do the fairies hide?

☐	Flowers 1	☐	Vane
☐	Flowers 2	☐	Hos (house)
☐	Moss	☐	Patrol
☐	Caustic light	☐	Cube
☐	SECRET GATHERING PLACE	☐	Maze (invisible)
☐	SEALED TEMPLE	☐	Fountain
☐	THE QUARRY	☐	WEST GARDEN
☐	EAST FOREST	☐	WEST GARDEN
☐	THE GREAT LIBRARY	☐	FORTRESS OF THE EASTERN VAULT
☐	Maze (column)	☐	EAST FOREST

Page 49

The golden path The greatest spell

Page 51

Cards

AURA'S GEM
Parry time ↑

Did you retain the letter from us?
Immerse it in water for 60 seconds
to see a secret message.
★

Page 52

             nor ← up
le → we               eas ← ri
             sou ← dow

Maze

Page 54

[This spoiler-tagged table displays strangely on Steam; mouse over below to reveal the whole thing, hopefully.]

æ	a	ɪ	ɛ	ʌ	ə
i	u	ɝ	oɹ	ɑɹ	ɪɹ
eɪ	aɪ	oɪ	aʊ	o	ɛɹ
m	n	ŋ	p	b	t
d	k	g	dʒ	tʃ	f
v	θ	ð	s	z	ʃ
ʒ	h	ɹ	j	w	l

Fox ← 🦊
Sword ← 🗡️

FOR ADDITIONAL SUPPORT & SECRETS

1. Find some rare golden statues.
   
2. Traverse the glow to visit 12 strange beings
   
3. “Un-sing” to them the greatest song,
   the song of the golden path, as seen from within.

Page 55

[clockwise from the top]
up dow up dow le ri le ri up dow le ri
Under the moon,
contemplate this prayer.
Near an ancient tomb
plundered for its blade
lies a special place.

[swoo703]

[1/2]

Fantastic guide!!!
Congratulations and many thanks for having taken the time to do it with so much care and attention!! You've obviously put a lot of work into it with so much detail as you did.

I wanted to decypher the manual by myself, though. But your guide helped me check whether or not I was right in my decyphering of certain words (Well done for finding "planar", "gnaw", "quaff" or "hewn" [among others], btw! I was absolutely clueless about those until I found your guide!).

[swoo703]

[2/2]

That being said, I've noticed some tiny mistakes in your guide:
- Page 19: "The ghostly form of an ECHO-OF-SELF" should actually be "The ghostly form is an ECHO-OF-SELF" .
- Page 40: "3. A shaft descends into darkness" should actually be "3. A shaft descends into blackness " .
- Page 40: You missed out the writing in the center of the laurels (bottom left of the page). It reads " HERO ". ;-)
- Page 54: In the vowel table
• "a" should be "ɑ"
• the "ʌ" and "ə" should be swapped
• "ɝ" should be "ɜr"
• "oɹ" should be "ɔr"
• "ɑɹ" should be "ɑr"
• "ɪɹ" should be "ɪr"
• "oɪ" should be "ɔɪ"
• "o" should be "oʊ"
• "ɛɹ" should be "ɛr".

In the consonant table
• "ɹ" should be written "r".

(Source: )[/spoiler] [en.wikipedia.org]

[Tsuchi]

Hi. Sorry for undiggind this topic but I have a question that has been driving me crazy when trying to decipher the booklet.

I understood that the title of the pages 13-14 may be read as Button . So I took note that the vowel character with the two lines on the bottom should be read as "uh" and that made some things quite hard to read. Later, I read the page 17 which describes the stick : "Just a stick!" with the same vowel character for the "i" in "stick.

I found no one talking about it, So I think that's just a "me" problem. But please, could you explain to me why the "to" in "button" and "ti" in "stick" are written exactly the same in Tunic ? I understood that Tunic was likely to us US-english pronunciations, but even with that, on dictionaries, for the words "button" the "/ə/" character is used for the pronunciation and it's the "/ɪ/" character that's used for "stick".

Thank you a lot in advance.

[wisnij]

@Quote fixed, thank you!

[Quote]

Hi, after translating the manual I compared my translation with yours and noticed a few mistakes with yours.

On page 4, "snapped" should be "snagged".
On page 17, "by unusual greatness" should be "to unusual greatness".
On page 19, "what was but is no more" should be "what was but is now not".
On page 31, "seal" should be "siege".
On page 35, "round" should be "around".
On page 38, "though to" should be "thought to".
On page 42, "world" should be "realm" (and it looks like you forgot to tag the first sentence as a spoiler).

Thanks!

[wisnij]

Awesome, I added a link to that in the Introduction section here.

[The Sojourner]

NEW: all the extra text can be found here: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3003485891

[The Sojourner]

I just checked, and it turns out /uɹ/ (CURE) never appears anywhere in the game! But if it did, it would almost certainly be merged with /oɹ/ (NORTH/FORCE) or /ɝ/ (NURSE/LETTER) depending on the word. Still, I noticed that /ʌ/ (STRUT) is actually in two places in Trunic: either merged with /ə/ (COMMA), or /ʊ/ (FOOT), depending on the word. In fact, what you use /ʌ/ to describe is actually /ʊ/!

Also, /a/ isn't a universal English vowel — it's more like /ɑ/, especially for how North Americans pronounce vowels from the LOT and THOUGHT lexical sets.

[The Sojourner]

Anyway, I noticed a small error of mine: it's actually Canadian English, as evidenced by "out" sounding as "oat" on Page 16, as well as Page 48, which reads "house" twice: once as a Canadian would say it, and once as almost anyone else would say it. Someone also says "sorry" as "sore-ee" in the dialogue.

Also, if anyone's wondering why the last symbol on Line 1 on Page 40 is circled, it's due to a pun: "Air" sounds like "Heir"! This pun has been noticed on Page 38 as well, but not in-game.

Finally, I saw a typo for Page 36: should say "The Librarian has leaRned much" (currently says "leaned much").

[wisnij]

@EndgameZero: Fixed! I didn't even see that the first time, it was so small, haha.

@The Sojourner: Thanks! And yeah, I'm deliberately doing a fairly broad transcription, so take all of these with a grain of salt :) For some things I'm not even sure they were attested... does /ur/ show up in any of the words in the manual? And in any case there are more vowel variations in GenAm English than this script can fully distinguish, so there's necessarily some degree of combining going on already.