About Kirundi Language | Kirundi | Alphabets in Kirundi

Countries

Burma

Total No. Of Countries

Rank: 14 (Overall)

0 46

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National Language

Burundi, Gambia

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Africa, Asia

Minority Language

Not spoken in any of the countries

Regulated By

Interesting Facts

Kirundi language is tonal, since it has high and low essential tones.
Kirundi Language is referred as a language where Meeussen's rule is active, this rule describes a certain pattern of tonal change in Bantu languages.

Similar To

Kinyarwanda Language

Derived From

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

Rank: 3 (Overall)

18 247

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Phonology

How Many Vowels

Rank: 2 (Overall)

0 32

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How Many Consonants

Rank: 9 (Overall)

9 60

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Scripts

Latin

Writing Direction

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

Rank: 5 (Overall)

2 12

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Time Taken to Learn

36 weeks

Rank: 13 (Overall)

3 88

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Greetings

Hello

Bwakeye

Thank You

Urakoze

How Are You?

Urakomeye?

Good Night

Ijoro ryiza

Good Evening

Mwiriwe

Good Afternoon

Mwiriwe

Good Morning

Mwaramutse

Please

Ndagusavye

Sorry

Ndasubiza

Bye

N’agasaga

I Love You

Ndi waramutse

Excuse Me

Ndasaba

Dialects

Dialect 1

Rwanda-Rundi

Where They Speak

Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda

How Many People Speak

20,000,000.00

Rank: 29 (Overall)

1.5 960000000

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Dialect 2

Where They Speak

Tanzania

How Many People Speak

990,000.00

Rank: 65 (Overall)

700 274000000

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Dialect 3

Shubi

Where They Speak

Tanzania

How Many People Speak

153,000.00

Rank: 62 (Overall)

2 230000000

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Total No. Of Dialects

Rank: 6 (Overall)

0 188

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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

8.80 million

Rank: 59 (Overall)

0 1200

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Speaking Population

0.13 %

Rank: 54 (Overall)

0 89

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Native Speakers

8.80 million

Rank: 49 (Overall)

0 873

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Second Language Speakers

12.00 million

Rank: 38 (Overall)

0.01 400

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Native Name

íkiRǔndi

Alternative Names

Rundi, Urundi

French Name

rundi

German Name

Kirundi

Pronunciation

[kɪˈrʊndi]

Ethnicity

Hutu, Tutsi, and Twa

History

Origin

1500

Language Family

Niger-Congo Family

Subgroup

Branch

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms

Standard Forms

Kirundi

Language Position

Rank: 67 (Overall)

1 120

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Signed Forms

Kirundi Sign Language

Scope

Code

ISO 639 1

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

run

ISO 639 2/B

run

ISO 639 3

run

ISO 639 6

run

Glottocode

rund1242

Linguasphere

No data available

Types of Language

Language Type

Language Linguistic Typology

Language Morphological Typology

Know Alphabets in Kirundi

When you start learning to write in any language the Alphabets form a skeleton of any language. Let's talk About Kirundi Language, where you will learn the number of letter in Kirundi Alphabets. Every language has its own set of alphabets or characters so it is necessary to know alphabets in Kirundi. Kirundi phonology gives Kirundi vowels and Kirundi consonants. There are 5 vowels and 19 consonants in Kirundi language. Based upon the number of alphabet, vowels and consonants in the language we can check if Kirundi is one of the Most Difficult Languages. All about Kirundi language is given in detail in this section.

All Kirundi countries

Want to explore all Kirundi countries? About Kirundi language serves you with all Kirundi Speaking Countries. Countries that use Kirundi as official language are called as Kirundi countries.

Countries that use Kirundi as their National Language are: Burundi, Gambia.

Second language indicates to any language which the person learns in addition to first or native language.

Countries that use Kirundi as second language are: Kirundi is not spoken as second language in any of the countries.

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Learn Kirundi greetings

Languages are used by every human being to communicate. And communication begins with the greetings. First step to form any interaction is to learn Kirundi Greetings. Whenever you are travelling to new country where in you don’t know the local language of that country then you should at least be familiar with some greetings to start any formal or informal conversion. When we talk about Kirundi language, we are always interested in learning useful phrases in Kirundi language.Learn Kirundi greetings that can be used in formal situations:

Hello: Bwakeye
Thank you: Urakoze
Good Morning: Mwaramutse
Good Evening: Mwiriwe
Good Afternoon: Mwiriwe

All Kirundi Language Codes

Get to know all Kirundi language codes here. There are several languages spoken all over the world where in most of the languages have alternate names which come from diverse sources. All Kirundi Language Codes are assigned with unique code. There is usually two or three letters code for each language. In most of the applications, these language codes are used where it is tedious to use language names.