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Kirundi
Kirundi

Arabic
Arabic



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Countries

Countries

Burma
Algeria, Bahrain, Chad, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen

Total No. Of Countries

123
0 46
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National Language

Burundi, Gambia
Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Africa, Asia
Africa, Asia

Minority Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries

Regulated By

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Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council

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.
  • Arabic is 5th common language in world.
  • Classical Arabic is the language of Quran and also it is official language. Classical Arabic is the only way to learn Arabic language in academic way and it does not change.

Similar To

Kinyarwanda Language
Amharic and Hebrew

Derived From

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Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2128
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

58
0 32
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How Many Consonants

1928
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Arabic

Writing Direction

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Right-To-Left, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

64
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

36 weeks88 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Bwakeye
مرحبا

Thank You

Urakoze
شكرا

How Are You?

Urakomeye?
كيف حالك؟

Good Night

Ijoro ryiza
تصبح على خير

Good Evening

Mwiriwe
مساء الخير

Good Afternoon

Mwiriwe
مساء الخير

Good Morning

Mwaramutse
صباح الخير

Please

Ndagusavye
من فضلك

Sorry

Ndasubiza
آسف

Bye

N’agasaga
وداعا

I Love You

Ndi waramutse
أحبك

Excuse Me

Ndasaba
اعذرني

Dialects

Dialect 1

Rwanda-Rundi
Maghrebi

Where They Speak

Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia

How Many People Speak

20,000,000.00310,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Ha
Sudanese

Where They Speak

Tanzania
Sudan

How Many People Speak

990,000.0017,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Shubi
Levantine

Where They Speak

Tanzania
Cyprus, Levant

How Many People Speak

153,000.0021,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

626
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

8.80 million452.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.13 %4.43 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

8.80 million206.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

12.00 million246.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

íkiRǔndi
(al arabiya) العربية

Alternative Names

Rundi, Urundi
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic

French Name

rundi
arabe

German Name

Kirundi
Arabisch

Pronunciation

[kɪˈrʊndi]
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/

Ethnicity

Hutu, Tutsi, and Twa
Arabs

History

Origin

1500
512 CE

Language Family

Niger-Congo Family
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family

Subgroup

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Semitic

Branch

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North Arabic

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
No early forms

Standard Forms

Kirundi
Modern Standard Arabic

Language Position

8625
1 120
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Signed Forms

Kirundi Sign Language
Signed Arabic

Scope

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Macrolanguage

Code

ISO 639 1

rn
ar

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

run
ara

ISO 639 2/B

run
ara

ISO 639 3

run
ara

ISO 639 6

run
ara

Glottocode

rund1242
arab1395

Linguasphere

No data available
12-AAC

Types of Language

Language Type

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Living

Language Linguistic Typology

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Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

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Fusional, Synthetic

Kirundi and Arabic Alphabets

Kirundi and Arabic Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Kirundi and Arabic. In Kirundi Alphabets there are 21 letters while in Arabic Alphabets there are 28 letters. To learn Kirundi and Arabic languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Kirundi and Arabic languages. The Kirundi phonology consist Kirundi vowels and Kirundi consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Kirundi greetings vs Arabic greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Kirundi and Arabic are Most Spoken Languages.

All Kirundi and Arabic Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Kirundi and Arabic dialects. Various dialects of Kirundi and Arabic language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Kirundi are spoken in different Kirundi Speaking Countries whereas Arabic Dialects are spoken in different Arabic speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Kirundi vs Arabic Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Kirundi dialects include: Rwanda-Rundi, Ha. Arabic dialects include: Maghrebi , Sudanese. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Kirundi and Arabic Speaking population

Kirundi and Arabic speaking population is one of the factors based on which Kirundi and Arabic languages can be compared. The total count of Kirundi and Arabic Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Kirundi language is 0.13 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Arabic language is 4.43 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Kirundi and Arabic on Kirundi vs Arabic where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Kirundi and Arabic Language Codes

Kirundi and Arabic language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Kirundi and Arabic Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.