Tjwao Talking Dictionary

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aba

noun dog

Speaker: Ngcoli Sibanda

ana-ha

verb know (facts)

Speaker: Ngcoli Sibanda

au

noun fish

Speaker: Ngcoli Sibanda

ayera

village

bhabhara

maternal grandfather

bhara

father

cam cware

twin

cam cware-ra

twins

came

numeral two

Speaker: Ngcoli Sibanda

cao-ha

fly

cham curi

noun seed

Speaker: Ngcoli Sibanda

churu

adjective cold (of weather)

cii

song

cun

name

cwa

child

cwan

noun bone

Speaker: Ngcoli Sibanda

cwarera

children

danatsho

girl

dao-hho

bulls

doxo

stick

dumba

drum

dzaa

friend

dzin-ra

days

dzini

noun sun

Speaker: Ngcoli Sibanda

dziraa

noun bird

Speaker: Ngcoli Sibanda

dzwaa

noun ash(es)

Speaker: Ngcoli Sibanda

gcana

noun leaf (botanics)

Speaker: Ngcoli Sibanda

gcubaa

spider

goe

frog

gudora

baboons

gwi

rope

gxam

thorn

gxe cwa

daughter

gxe-tsho

wife

gxobo

mud

hae

at night

hamu

dust

hhoni iye

pronoun all (of a number)

Speaker: Ngcoli Sibanda

hihwa-ha

verb come

Speaker: Ngcoli Sibanda

hinuka

at

hitshe

day

hitshe dzini

verb today

ibi

noun egg

Speaker: Ngcoli Sibanda

jibe

axe

jii-du

forest

jinaa

well

joree

noun bark (of tree)

Speaker: Ngcoli Sibanda

jumba/dumba

house

K-a-u

husband

ka

verb drink

Speaker: Ngcoli Sibanda

ka-u

noun bull

kae-tsha-tsho

hunter

kam

noun mouth

Speaker: Ngcoli Sibanda

karo

noun boy

kau huku

cock

kau tsho

noun man (adult male human)

Speaker: Ngcoli Sibanda

khuri

pig

koho

noun flesh (meat)

Speaker: Ngcoli Sibanda

koroo

cave

kue

leopard

kui

verb say

Speaker: Ngcoli Sibanda

kuni

noun louse

Speaker: Ngcoli Sibanda

kwee

river

malempe

bat

mara

mother

muu

verb see

Speaker: Ngcoli Sibanda

nawoo

question what?

Speaker: Ngcoli Sibanda

ncaa

adjective new

ncuun

noun hair (on head of humans)

Speaker: Ngcoli Sibanda

nenare

question who?

Speaker: Ngcoli Sibanda

nguu

noun earth (soil)

Speaker: Ngcoli Sibanda

ngwanaye

three

nxwee

noun moon

Speaker: Ngcoli Sibanda

nyu

verb eat

Speaker: Ngcoli Sibanda

paa

verb bite

Speaker: Ngcoli Sibanda

panana

banana

sam

noun breasts (female)

Speaker: Ngcoli Sibanda

sha

pronoun 2.sg You

Speaker: Ngcoli Sibanda

tani

verb stand

Speaker: Ngcoli Sibanda

tiya

pronoun 1.sg I

Speaker: Ngcoli Sibanda

tsaha

noun hot (of weather)

tsau

noun hand

Speaker: Ngcoli Sibanda

tsawaha

fat

tshoo

noun skin (person’s)

Speaker: Ngcoli Sibanda

tshu-cwan

baby

tshwa

noun person (individual human)

Speaker: Ngcoli Sibanda

tsiku

if

tsoo

noun heart

Speaker: Ngcoli Sibanda

tswii

noun nose

Speaker: Ngcoli Sibanda

tswinye

adjective small

Speaker: Ngcoli Sibanda

turuu

rat

twinye

adjective good

uwe uwaha

dawn

xam

verb hear

Speaker: Ngcoli Sibanda

xhana

valley

xharare

adjective many

Speaker: Ngcoli Sibanda

xhoha

adjective dry (substance)

xhoree

noun claw

Speaker: Ngcoli Sibanda

xum

noun cloud (not fog)

Speaker: Ngcoli Sibanda

xwee

verb lie (on side, recline)

Speaker: Ngcoli Sibanda

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Dictionary produced by Davy Ndlovu, Admire Phiri, Ngcoli Sibanda, Dr. Jeffrey Wills, Gregory D. S. Anderson and K. David Harrison. (2014).
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how to cite: Anderson, Gregory D.S., Davy Ndlovu, Admire Phiri, Ngcoli Sibanda, Jeffrey Wills and K. David Harrison. 2014. Tjwao Talking Dictionary. Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages. http://www.talkingdictionary.org/tjwao

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