Nyungwe

Nyungwe kana ChiNyungwe mutauro unotaurwa kuMozambique uri rurimi rieBantu.

Mazwi Anotodza Shona

• VaNyungwe vanoti mbiti (otter) kureva mbiti.
• Nyungwe inoti mwana (son) kureva mwanakomana.
• Nyungwe inoti abale (brothers) kureva vakoma.
• Nyungwe inoti mbwaya (dog) kureva imbwa.
• Nyungwe inoti kuyamba (to begin) kureva kuvamba.
• Nyungwe inoti munthu (person) kureva munhu.
• Nyungwe inoti miti (trees) kureva miti.
• Nyungwe inoti mubodzi (one) kureva mubodzi.
• Nyungwe inoti katiyo (one little chick) kureva katiyo kana kanhiyo.
• Nyungwe inoti uswa (grass) kureva uswa.
• Nyungwe inoti muyeruzi (adviser) kureva chipanga mazano.
• Nyungwe inoti mulimi (farmer) kureva farmer.
• Nyungwe inoti ulendo (travel) kureva rwendo.
• Nyungwe inoti mtsikana (girl) kureva musikana.
• Nyungwe inoti mambo (king) kureva mambo.
• Nyungwe inoti diso (eye) kureva ziso.
• Nyungwe inoti zinomwe (seven) kureva nomwe.
• Nyungwe inoti kufunana (too love mutually) kureva kudanana.
• Nyungwe inoti nyengo (time, event, occasion, period, season) kureva nguva. Sokuti: nyengo ya mainza (rainy season).
• Nyungwe inoti dzuwa (sun, daylight) kureva zuva.
• Nyungwe inoti usiku (night) kureva husiku.
• Nyungwe inoti macibese (morning) kureva mangwanani.
• Nyungwe inoti kubesera kana kubeseraka (to wake up early) kureva kumukira.
• Nyungwe inoti congwe (rooster) kureva jongwe.
• Nyungwe inoti maulo (evening) kureva mauro.
• Nyungwe inoti ngwe (ideophone meaning - its getting bright or light) inyaudzosingwi inodudza kuchena kwekunze.
• Nyungwe inoti masikati (noon) kureva masikati.
• Nyungwe inoti nsiku (noon) kureva masikati.
• Nyungwe inoti kweru (early afternnon) kureva pakuvamba kwemasikati.
• Nyungwe inoti kudoka (to get dark) kureva kudoka.
• Nyungwe inoti chidodo (twilight).
• Nyungwe inoti mainza (rainy season) kureva maenza.
• Nyungwe inoti matenda (sickness) kureva hurwere kana hutenda.
• Nyungwe inoti mpaka (until) kureva kudzamara.
• Nyungwe inoti muzinga (week) kureva vhiki.
• Nyungwe inoti lero' (today) kureva nhasi. Izwi iri rinotodza Chewa neSena inoti lero.
• Nyungwe inoti pita (to pass) kureva kupfuura.
• Nyungwe inoti kufika (to arrive) kureva kusvika.

Mazita eMwedzi

• Mwezi ya tsakulo (January - lit. month of hoeing).
• Mwezi ya kambzombzo (February - lit. ‘time of hunger before first harvest).
• Mwezi ya nkakata (March).
• Mwezi ya m’bvuno (April -lit. harvest).
• Mwezi ya m’phepo (May - lit. ‘cold, wind, fresh time).
• Mwezi ya zawe (June - literary freeze, frost) kureva mwedzi wachikumi.
• Mwezi ya mpepedza (July - lit. ‘wind).
• Mwezi ya chirimo (August - dry time to prepare the fields) kureva chirimo.
• Mwezi ya tsosa (September - ).
• Mwezi ya phumphuli (October - lit. ‘first rain).
• Mwezi ya m’bzwalo (November - ).
• Mwezi ya mainza (December - lit. rainy reason).