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Bakaaze ba Selemengi
Bether Mwale-Moyo and Moffat Moyo
Marleen Visser and Wiehan de Jager
ChiTonga
Selemengi ulabayanda bakaaze.

Kuli bakaaze banji kuŋanda yakwe.
Selemengi ulijisi kaaze omwe usiya.

Ooyu kaaze ulalya nyama nji kapati.
Selemengi ulijisi kaaze omwe uneneede.

Ooyu kaaze ulalya kufwumbwa cintu.
Kaaze watatu watanta mucisamu.

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

Banyina Selemengi bamugwasya kuseluka.
Selemengi ulijisi bakaaze bobilo batolo.

Bakaaze aaba baloona buzuba boonse.
Selemengi ulaa bakaaze botatwe bankutwe.

Balajata mbeba munkikini busiku boonse.
Selemengi ulijisi mubwa omwe. Izyina lyakwe ngu Lirafi.

Lirafi tajisi beenzyinyina. Takkomene pe.
Bakaaze ba Selemengi tabamuyandi Lirafi. Balamutanda muŋanda.

Lirafi ulatija akuyuba.
Selemengi ulamulangaula Lirafi ukumujosya kuŋanda. Bakaaze tabakkomani.

Tabayandi kumubona alimwi Lirafi.
Ino Selemengi uliji bakaaze bongaye antoomwe?

Ulijisi bakaaze bali lusele.
Ino selemengi ulaa babwa bongaye? Ujisi mubwa omwe.

Sena uli kuli Lirafi lino?
Ino ujisi bakaaze bongaye kumunzi?

Ujisi babwa bongaye kumunzi?
You are free to download, copy, translate or adapt this story and use the illustrations as long as you attribute in the following way:
Bakaaze ba Selemengi
Author - Khothatso Ranoosi and Marion Drew
Adaptation - Bether Mwale-Moyo and Moffat Moyo
Illustration - Marleen Visser and Wiehan de Jager
Language - ChiTonga
Level - First sentences
© African Storybook Initiative 2015
Creative Commons: Attribution 4.0
Source www.africanstorybook.org
Original source http://paleng.weebly.com/.
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  • Translations and adaptations
    • Adurroota Caalaa
      Afaan Oromo (Translation)
    • Sulemaanʊ abʊnyaʊ
      Anii (Adaptation)
    • Tungowe twa Selemeng
      ChiNambya (Translation)
    • Kiti dza Selemeng
      ChiShona (Translation)
    • Bakaaze ba Selemengi
      ChiTonga (Translation)
    • Acona a Selemeng
      CiNyanja (Adaptation)
    • Ma cona a Selemeng
      CiNyanja (Translation)
    • Ebibusi bia Selemeng'
      Ekegusii (Translation)
    • Selemeng's cats
      English (Translation)
    • Les chats de Selemeng
      French (Translation)
    • Baapuushi bakwa Mpundu
      IciBemba (Adaptation)
    • Baapuushi bakwa Selemeng
      IciBemba (Translation)
    • Amakati kaZamo
      isiZulu (Translation)
    • P'aka a Charo
      KiGiryama (Translation)
    • Mbaka sya Selemeng'e
      Kikamba (Translation)
    • Injangwe za Sano
      Kinyarwanda (Adaptation)
    • Paka wa Sigei
      Kiswahili (Translation)
    • Selemenge na niawu
      Lingala (Translation)
    • Chipuusi cha Silali
      Lubukusu (Translation)
    • Puusi dha Kelementi
      Lusoga (Translation)
    • Ng'ipakae Selina
      Ng’aturkana (Translation)
    • Tsipusi tsia Selemeng
      Oluwanga (Translation)
    • Selemeng cats dem
      Pidgin English (Nigeria) (Translation)
    • Mpaka jwa Subo
      Pokomo (Translation)
    • Dikatse tša Selemeng
      Sepedi (Translation)
    • Dikatse tša Selemeng
      Sepedi (Translation)
    • Likatse tsa Selemeng
      Sesotho (Lesotho) (Original)
    • Dikatse tsa Selemeng
      Sesotho (South Africa) (Translation)
    • Dikatse tsa ga Selemeng
      Setswana (Translation)
    • Emakati a-Bakhona
      Siswati (Translation)
    • Zwimange zwa Tshilima
      Tshivenḓa (Translation)
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