Countries
Burma
Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia.
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Burundi, Gambia
Ethiopia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia
Africa
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
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.
- Amharic ranks as second most spoken Semitic language in the world.
- Amharic has its own writing system named “fidel” and it uses Amharic alphabets to write.
Similar To
Kinyarwanda Language
Tigrinya and Oromo Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2133
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
57
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
1931
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Latin
Ethiopic
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
63
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
36 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Bwakeye
Selam
Thank You
Urakoze
amesege'nallo'
How Are You?
Urakomeye?
Dehina newot?
Good Night
Ijoro ryiza
Dehna dur
Good Evening
Mwiriwe
melkam meshe't
Good Afternoon
Mwiriwe
i'ndemin walu
Good Morning
Mwaramutse
i'ndemin adäru
Please
Ndagusavye
i'bakwon
Sorry
Ndasubiza
aznallehu
Bye
N’agasaga
tschao
I Love You
Ndi waramutse
afekirishalehu
Excuse Me
Ndasaba
yiqirta
Dialect 1
Rwanda-Rundi
Gondar
Where They Speak
Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda
Gondar
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.0022,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Ha
Gojjami
Where They Speak
Tanzania
Ethiopia
How Many People Speak
990,000.0022,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Shubi
Showa
Where They Speak
Tanzania
Ethiopia
How Many People Speak
153,000.0022,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
65
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
8.80 million18.70 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.13 %0.37 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
8.80 million25.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
12.00 million10.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
íkiRǔndi
አማርኛ
Alternative Names
Rundi, Urundi
Abyssinian, Amarigna, Amarinya, Amhara, Ethiopian
French Name
rundi
amharique
German Name
Kirundi
Amharisch
Pronunciation
[kɪˈrʊndi]
[amarɨɲɲa]
Ethnicity
Hutu, Tutsi, and Twa
Amharas
Origin
1500
13th century
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
-
Semitic
Branch
-
Ethiopic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Ge'ez
Standard Forms
Kirundi
Amharic
Language Position
8655
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Kirundi Sign Language
Signed Amharic
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
rn
am
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
run
amh
ISO 639 2/B
run
amh
ISO 639 3
run
amh
ISO 639 6
run
amh
Glottocode
rund1242
amha1245
Linguasphere
No data available
12-ACB-a
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
Fusional