Chikongo

Kikongo kana Kituba mutauro weBantu unowanikwa kuDemocratic Republic of Congo.

## Mazwi Anotodza Shona

*Izwi rokuti mwana (Child) ndiro rimwe kuShona neKikongo.
*Izwi rokuti kudya kana **kudia** (to eat) rimwechete kuShona neKikongo.
*Izwi rokuti kunwa (to drink) rimwechete kuShona neKikongo.
*Kikongo inoti **kwiza** (to come) kureva kuuya. Kuza zvinoreva kuuuya muChiShona; sokuti Muzanebanga akauya nebanga.
*Kikongo inoti **kwenda** (to go) kureva kuenda. 
*Kikongo inoti **kubanda** (to begin, to start) kureva kutanga. Fananidzai nezwi rokuti chipande.
*Kikongo inoti **nzila** (path) kureva nzira. 
*Kikongo inoti **muntu** (person, someone) kureva munhu. 
*Kikongo inoti **kuwa** (to hear) kureva kunzwa kana kuhwa.
*Kikongo inoti **ndeke** (bird) kureva shiri. 
*Kikongo inoti **nkuni** (wood) kureva huni.
*Kikongo inoti **mvula** (rain) kureva kunaya kwemvura. 
*Kikongo inoti **mvula** (year) kureva **gore**.
*Kikongo inoti **tata** (father) kureva baba. 
*Kikongo inoti **insi** (country, groud, under, below) kureva pasi.
*Kikongo inoti **nsinga** (rope, cord) kureva tambo. 
*Kikongo inoti **nene** (large, big) kureva chikuru.
*Kikongo inoti **meza** (table) kureva tafura. 
*Kikongo inoti **kufwa** (to die) kureva kufa.
*Kikongo inoti **fukama** (kneel) kureva kupfugama.
*Kikongo inoti **mfumu** (king) kureva mambo. Vanobva vati **kimfumu** (Kingdom).

## Mamwe Mazwi

*Kikongo inoti **kusala** (to work, to do) kureva kushanda kana kuita. Vanoti **kisalu** (n. work, job).
*Kikongo inoti **kuzaba** (to know) kureva kuziva. 
*Kikongo inoti **lukaya** kana **makaya** pakuwanda (leaf) kureva shizha. 
*Kikongo inoti **mpangi** (sibling) kureva mwananyina. 
*Kikongo inoti **mbongo** (money) kureva mari. 
*Kikongo inoti **ndombe** (black, negro) kureva munhu mutema. 
*Kikongo inoti **ntalu** (price, value, figure, number) kureva mutengo. 
*Kikongo inoti **ngolo** (hard, strong) kureva hukukutu.
*Kikongo inoti **zoba** (stupid) kureva dununu.
*Kikongo inoti **mbote** (good) kureva chakanaka.
*Kikongo inoti **zenga** (decide).

## Zvivakashure Ki kana U

Pano pari kutsanangurwa kuumbwa kwemazwi kubva pane mamwe mazwi kuchishandiswa zvivakashure **Ki-** kana **U-** pekutanga kwemazwi iwaya.

***Ki** prefix applied to nouns to express the abstract idea, office, condition or quality connected with them; equivalent to the English suffixes -**-ship, -ness** and **-dom** etc. For example **Ngulu** (pig) forms the word **kingulu** (piggishness). **Bamba** (a broker) forms the word **kibamba**. So it denotes the nature, attributes, office, habit, customs, perquisites or rights possessed by or characterizing the person or thing denoted by the noun from which it is formed.

*The prefix **U-** denotes the inherent quality which imparts the nature, condition, office etc. while the prefix **Ki-** denotes and characterizes the condition, privilege, power etc. incident to the possession of a certain nature, condition or office. 
*So prefix **Ki-** imparts something; and **U-** is due to its possession.

*Thus from **ngulu** (a pig) comes **ungulu**, piggish nature - those qualities and that physical structure which is essential in a pig; **kingulu**, the habits of a pig, that which evidences a piggish nature.