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
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
Alphabets in
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Writing Direction
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Right-To-Left, Horizontal
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
I Love You
Ndi waramutse
أحبك
Dialect 1
Rwanda-Rundi
Maghrebi
Where They Speak
Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
Where They Speak
Tanzania
Sudan
Dialect 3
Shubi
Levantine
Where They Speak
Tanzania
Cyprus, Levant
Native Name
íkiRǔndi
(al arabiya) العربية
Alternative Names
Rundi, Urundi
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
German Name
Kirundi
Arabisch
Pronunciation
[kɪˈrʊndi]
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
Ethnicity
Hutu, Tutsi, and Twa
Arabs
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Kirundi
Modern Standard Arabic
Signed Forms
Kirundi Sign Language
Signed Arabic
Glottocode
rund1242
arab1395
Linguasphere
No data available
12-AAC
Language Linguistic Typology
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Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
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Fusional, Synthetic
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.