Each consisted of a group of households dwelling in huts built around a central area that served as a meeting place, a cattle byre, a graveyard, and an ancestral shrine.
Wun'we wuri na ntlawa wa tiyindlu, letinga akiwa ti siya xirhendzevutani exikarhi leswi aswi hlanganisa ndzhawu yo hlangana eka yona, xivala xa tihomu, masirha ya muti xikan'we na ndzhawu yo phahlela eka yona.