Nyamwezi
Nyamwezi is an Atlantic-Congo language spoken in Tanzania, by about 980 thousand people.
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Nyamwezi is a major Bantu language of central Tanzania. It forms a dialect continuum with Sukuma, but is more distinct from it.
Konongo and Ruwila are sometimes considered dialects.
From Wikipedia · Nyamwezi language · CC BY-SA 4.0
Written down
Banhu bose bubyalagwa biyagalulile, n’ikujo haki zilenganelile.
Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR in Unicode).
Words in Nyamwezi
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| woman | mkima | |
| person | nu* | |
| name | ina* | |
| eye | iso* | |
| ear | twi* | |
| nose | nindo* | |
| tooth | ino* | |
| tongue | limi* | |
| hand | boko* | |
| blood | gazi* | |
| bone | guha* | |
| skin | dili* | |
| knee | zwi* | |
| breast | bala* | |
| liver | tima* | |
| water | mììnzí | |
| fire | oto* | |
| sun | uba* | |
| star | sonda* | |
| stone | wa* | |
| mountain | gulu* | |
| tree | kuwa* | |
| leaf | dutu* | |
| night | ziku* | |
| dog | wa* | |
| fish | somba* | |
| louse | da* | |
| one | solo* | |
| two | bili* | |
| I | nana* |
* in the simplified ASJP transcription
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Vocabulary compares 40 basic words (ASJP); grammar compares 195 features (Grambank). Similar is not always related.
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