Countries
Burma
South Africa
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Burundi, Gambia
South Africa
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Namibia, South Africa
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia
Africa
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Regulated By
-
Die Taalkommissie, National Languages Committee
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.
- Afrikaans Language is a mixture of English, Dutch, German, French and some South African language like Xhosa.
- Afrikaans Language lacks case and gender distinctions.
Similar To
Kinyarwanda Language
Dutch Language
Derived From
-
Dutch Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2132
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
515
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
1917
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
63
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
36 weeks24 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Bwakeye
hallo
Thank You
Urakoze
Dankie
How Are You?
Urakomeye?
Hoe gaan dit
Good Night
Ijoro ryiza
goeie nag
Good Evening
Mwiriwe
Goeienaand
Good Afternoon
Mwiriwe
Goeie middag
Good Morning
Mwaramutse
goeie more
Please
Ndagusavye
asseblief
Sorry
Ndasubiza
jammer
Bye
N’agasaga
Totsiens
I Love You
Ndi waramutse
Ek het jou lief
Excuse Me
Ndasaba
Verskoon my
Dialect 1
Rwanda-Rundi
Kaapse Afrikaans
Where They Speak
Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda
-
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.007,700,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Ha
Oranjeriverafrikaans
Where They Speak
Tanzania
-
How Many People Speak
990,000.007,700,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Shubi
Baster Afrikaans
Where They Speak
Tanzania
Namibia
How Many People Speak
153,000.007.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
63
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
8.80 million19.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.13 %0.03 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
8.80 million7.10 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
12.00 million10.30 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
íkiRǔndi
Afrikaans
Alternative Names
Rundi, Urundi
Cape Dutch
French Name
rundi
afrikaans
German Name
Kirundi
Afrikaans
Pronunciation
[kɪˈrʊndi]
[ɐfriˈkɑːns]
Ethnicity
Hutu, Tutsi, and Twa
Afrikaners
Origin
1500
17th Century
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Germanic
Branch
-
Western
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Cape dutch or kitchen dutch
Standard Forms
Kirundi
Standard Afrikaans
Language Position
8623
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Kirundi Sign Language
Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
rn
af
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
run
afr
ISO 639 2/B
run
afr
ISO 639 3
run
afr
ISO 639 6
run
afrs
Glottocode
rund1242
afri1274
Linguasphere
No data available
52-ACB-ba
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Analytic