Misc.

• Bucumi – a name meaning “tenth child” (“bu-chu-mi”)
• Minani – a name meaning “8^th child"
  
  
• Inpembo – reward/pay (“impe” combination is difficult, practice it)
  
  
• The sounds of “nt” vs. “nk” are difficult to recognize, distinguish, and produce.  Both sound like "nh" to my ears, but seem to occasionally sound like "n+k" and "n+t". Beware!
  
  
• Nagiye ejo – I went yesterday (ejo means both yesterday and tomorrow, depending on context)
  • Remember that one vowel cannot follow another, and when they do, the first vowel is dropped. So “nagiye ejo” is actually pronounced “nagiy ejo.” 
• Hirya y’ejo – the day after tomorrow. (the “y’” means “of”. This can be included in the word without the apostrophe as “hirya yejo”)
  
  
• Leta zunz’ubumwe z’amerika – USA (“z’” is another form of “of”… plural?)
  • Leta – state, government
  • Zunze – holding together
  • Ubumwe – unity (“ubu-mge”)
  • This name should be properly written “zunze ubumwe”, but because two vowels cannot occur together, it is pronounced and can be written “zunz’ubumwe” (the second way is more vernacular))
    
    
• Sawa – alright, okay, good (nisawa w/o the “ni”)
  • Sawa rero – “okay then”, equivalent of “bye now” (the “ro” is barely pronounced!)