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Countries

Countries
Burma

Total No. Of Countries
1 14

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
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Alphabets
21 3

Phonology

How Many Vowels
5 2

How Many Consonants
19 9

Scripts
Latin

Writing Direction
-

Hard to Learn

Language Levels
6 5

Time Taken to Learn
36 weeks 13

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 29

Dialect 2
Ha

Where They Speak
Tanzania

How Many People Speak
990,000.00 65

Dialect 3
Shubi

Where They Speak
Tanzania

How Many People Speak
153,000.00 62

Total No. Of Dialects
6 6

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
8.80 million 59

Speaking Population
0.13 % 54

Native Speakers
8.80 million 49

Second Language Speakers
12.00 million 38

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
86 67

Signed Forms
Kirundi Sign Language

Scope
-

Code

ISO 639 1
rn

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
-

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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.

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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.

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