Bakaaze ba Selemengi
Khothatso Ranoosi
Marleen Visser
ChiTonga

Selemengi ulabayanda bakaaze.

Kuli bakaaze banji kuŋanda yakwe.

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Selemengi ulijisi kaaze omwe usiya.

Ooyu kaaze ulalya nyama nji kapati.

2

Selemengi ulijisi kaaze omwe uneneede.

Ooyu kaaze ulalya kufwumbwa cintu.

3

Kaaze watatu watanta mucisamu.

Ooyu kaaze wapatila mucisamu.

4

Selemengi watanta mucisamu kuti abweze kaaze wakwe. Awalo wapatila mucisamu, kumwi kajisi kaaze wakwe.

Banyina Selemengi bamugwasya kuseluka.

5

Selemengi ulijisi bakaaze bobilo batolo.

Bakaaze aaba baloona buzuba boonse.

6

Selemengi ulaa bakaaze botatwe bankutwe.

Balajata mbeba munkikini busiku boonse.

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Selemengi ulijisi mubwa omwe. Izyina lyakwe ngu Lirafi.

Lirafi tajisi beenzyinyina. Takkomene pe.

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Bakaaze ba Selemengi tabamuyandi Lirafi. Balamutanda muŋanda.

Lirafi ulatija akuyuba.

9

Selemengi ulamulangaula Lirafi ukumujosya kuŋanda. Bakaaze tabakkomani.

Tabayandi kumubona alimwi Lirafi.

10

Ino Selemengi uliji bakaaze bongaye antoomwe?

Ulijisi bakaaze bali lusele.

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Ino selemengi ulaa babwa bongaye? Ujisi mubwa omwe.

Sena uli kuli Lirafi lino?

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Ino ujisi bakaaze bongaye kumunzi?

Ujisi babwa bongaye kumunzi?

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Bakaaze ba Selemengi
Author - Khothatso Ranoosi, Marion Drew
Adaptation - Bether Mwale-Moyo, Moffat Moyo
Illustration - Marleen Visser, Wiehan de Jager
Language - ChiTonga
Level - First sentences
© African Storybook Initiative 2015
Creative Commons: Attribution 4.0
Source www.africanstorybook.org
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