In romanizing this Naga language, a has the sound of a in ‘far,’ ‘ah’ ‘ah’; ā has the sound of a in ‘fate,’ ‘rate’; c has only a soft sound, never that of k; e (single) has the sound of e in ‘met,’ ‘net’; g has only a hard sound as in ‘give’; i has the sound of i in ‘pin,’ ‘sin’; u has only the sound of u in ‘but,’ ‘nut.’ One object of this style of romanizing is to reserve this mark (′) for accent only. The accent mark is needed to distinguish some words spelt alike, but with different meanings, indicated by accentuation, as ázu, first syllable accented, means ‘a dog,’ but azu, without special accent, means ‘blood.’