Vocabulary
- muthu, "person",
- kima, "thing";
- kudya, "food";
- tubya, "fire";
- lumbu, "wall"
- kamba, "friend"
Some Kimbundu words were influential to Romance languages like Portuguese, with words like banjo (supposedly from mbanza), bwe, baza, kuatu, kamba, arimo, mleke, quilombo (from kilombo), quimbanda, tanga, xinga, bunda, etc.
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