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butu
BU-tu
night
French: la nuit
Na butu, bato balalaka.
At night, people sleep.
La nuit, les gens dorment.
Night — the dark hours of rest and story. Butu is night. When the lamps are lit and the day's work is done, the butu is for sleep, for the radio, and for the old stories told in the courtyard.
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