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The English-Kalanga Bilingual Language Learning Bible

Old Testament

Read each verse in English beside its African Kalanga equivalent.

Esther 10English

Esita 10African Kalanga

  1. English1

    King Xerxes imposed tribute throughout the empire, to its distant shores.

    African Kalanga

    Mambo Ahasurusi kalaula kuti bathu bose bamu bushe gugwe ne baku ndzibo we gungwa baduse mimwiso.

  2. English2

    And all his acts of power and might, together with a full account of the greatness of Mordecai to which the king had raised him, are they not written in the book of the annals of the kings of Media and Persia?

    African Kalanga

    Mishingo yose iye simba lile ne bukulu gugwe nenge sekwa akakudza Modekayi, azwizokwagwa mu lukwalo gwe zwiyitikalo zwa boshe be Mediya ne Pheshiya kene?

  3. English3

    Mordecai the Jew was second in rank to King Xerxes, preeminent among the Jews, and held in high esteem by his many fellow Jews, because he worked for the good of his people and spoke up for the welfare of all the Jews.

    African Kalanga

    Modekayi ndiye wakabe etobela Mambo Ahasurusi nge mamo ngono wakabe ali nkulu kwazo mu Bajuta, ezibgwa kwazo ne Bajuta bakanyi kwabo ana ntutshi ngobe akabashingila zwakanaka ngo balebelekela ne kuti bathu bakanyi kukwe babe ne mbakiso.

Source: The English-Kalanga Bilingual Language Learning Bible, Ndzimu-unami Emmanuel Moyo, 2026. This online edition was extracted and reformatted from the PDF edition. Licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.

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