Tjwao English

verb know (facts)

Speaker: Ngcoli Sibanda

village

maternal aunt

four

five

twin

noun fire

Speaker: Ngcoli Sibanda

guinea fowl

adjective cold (of weather)

verb kill

Speaker: Ngcoli Sibanda

child

noun bone

Speaker: Ngcoli Sibanda

numeral one

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verb intr. path (road, trail; not street)

noun tongue (anatomical)

Speaker: Ngcoli Sibanda

tortoise

girl

noun burn

Speaker: Ngcoli Sibanda

hut

roof

friend

wing

noun bird

Speaker: Ngcoli Sibanda

in

noun mountain (not hill)

noun leaf (botanics)

Speaker: Ngcoli Sibanda

adjective big

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baboon

baboons

rope

daughter

wife

at night

lion

with

and

pronoun this

Speaker: Ngcoli Sibanda

at

day

verb today

chicken

noun sand (opposite to following)

Speaker: Ngcoli Sibanda

hole

forest

husband

pronoun inclusive we

Speaker: Ngcoli Sibanda

noun mouth

Speaker: Ngcoli Sibanda

noun root (botanics)

Speaker: Ngcoli Sibanda

noun boy

son

cock

noun man (adult male human)

Speaker: Ngcoli Sibanda

noun liver

Speaker: Ngcoli Sibanda

cave

leopard

verb say

Speaker: Ngcoli Sibanda

ghost

grave

verb walk

Speaker: Ngcoli Sibanda

lake

river

bat

maternal grandmother

where

when

question what?

Speaker: Ngcoli Sibanda

adjective new

noun hair (on head of humans)

Speaker: Ngcoli Sibanda

giraffe

verb sit

Speaker: Ngcoli Sibanda

noun horn (of bull etc.)

Speaker: Ngcoli Sibanda

noun moon

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banana

monkey

verb stand

Speaker: Ngcoli Sibanda

lightning

grass

elder sister

noun water

Speaker: Ngcoli Sibanda

fat

men

elder brother

noun skin (person’s)

Speaker: Ngcoli Sibanda

baby

all

you (pl)

if

noun smoke (of fire)

Speaker: Ngcoli Sibanda

noun heart

Speaker: Ngcoli Sibanda

noun nose

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adjective small

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noun rain

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adjective good

verb tomorrow

yesterday

verb hear

Speaker: Ngcoli Sibanda

spear

adjective many

Speaker: Ngcoli Sibanda

noun claw

Speaker: Ngcoli Sibanda

noun cloud (not fog)

Speaker: Ngcoli Sibanda