Tjwao English

noun dog

Speaker: Ngcoli Sibanda

village

maternal grandfather

maternal aunt

five

twin

twins

numeral two

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noun fire

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noun seed

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song

name

children

tortoise

girl

salt

noun burn

Speaker: Ngcoli Sibanda

hut

stick

drum

roof

friend

east

wing

in

noun mountain (not hill)

noun leaf (botanics)

Speaker: Ngcoli Sibanda

cow

adjective big

Speaker: Ngcoli Sibanda

baboons

thorn

wife

adverb not

Speaker: Ngcoli Sibanda

lion

dust

with

and

verb come

Speaker: Ngcoli Sibanda

at

day

verb today

chicken

noun egg

Speaker: Ngcoli Sibanda

hole

axe

noun bark (of tree)

Speaker: Ngcoli Sibanda

garden

verb drink

Speaker: Ngcoli Sibanda

noun bull

pronoun inclusive we

Speaker: Ngcoli Sibanda

verb stone

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bag

cock

pig

noun liver

Speaker: Ngcoli Sibanda

animal

cave

leopard

verb say

Speaker: Ngcoli Sibanda

ghost

noun louse

Speaker: Ngcoli Sibanda

verb walk

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noun head (anatomic)

Speaker: Ngcoli Sibanda

where

when

question who?

Speaker: Ngcoli Sibanda

adjective new

noun hair (on head of humans)

Speaker: Ngcoli Sibanda

how

noun woman

Speaker: Ngcoli Sibanda

verb bite

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banana

mosquito

monkey

noun blood

Speaker: Ngcoli Sibanda

lightning

grass

Thank You

elder sister

noun hot (of weather)

noun hand

Speaker: Ngcoli Sibanda

fat

noun skin (person’s)

Speaker: Ngcoli Sibanda

noun person (individual human)

Speaker: Ngcoli Sibanda

you (pl)

if

elephant

adjective small

Speaker: Ngcoli Sibanda

noun rain

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adjective round

yesterday

pronoun that

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verb swim

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verb hear

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valley

adjective many

Speaker: Ngcoli Sibanda

adjective dry (substance)

noun claw

Speaker: Ngcoli Sibanda

noun tooth (front, rather than molar)

Speaker: Ngcoli Sibanda

verb lie (on side, recline)

Speaker: Ngcoli Sibanda