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Kirundi
Kirundi

Burmese
Burmese



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Countries

Countries

Burma
Myanmar

Total No. Of Countries

11
0 46
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National Language

Burundi, Gambia
Myanmar

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Bangladesh, Burma

Speaking Continents

Africa, Asia
Asia

Minority Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Mon

Regulated By

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Myanmar Language Commission

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.
  • The naming of people in Burmese is strange. There is no last name, often name is rhymed such as Ming Ming, Mo Mo or Jo Jo.
  • It appears as odd language to many people because it has peculiar pitch register, tonal form as language.

Similar To

Kinyarwanda Language
Thai Language

Derived From

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Pali Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2133
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

512
0 32
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How Many Consonants

1933
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Tangut

Writing Direction

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Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

63
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

36 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Bwakeye
မင်္ဂလာပါ (maingalarpar)

Thank You

Urakoze
ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai)

How Are You?

Urakomeye?
နေကောင်းလား? (naykaungglarr?)

Good Night

Ijoro ryiza
ကောင်းသောညပါ (kaunggsawnyapar)

Good Evening

Mwiriwe
မင်္ဂလာညနေခင်းပါ (main g lar nyanayhkainn par)

Good Afternoon

Mwiriwe
မင်္ဂလာနေ့လည်ခင်းပါ (main g lar naelaihkainn par)

Good Morning

Mwaramutse
မင်္ဂလာနံနက်ခင်းပါ (main g lar nannaathkainnpar)

Please

Ndagusavye
ကျေးဇူးပြု (kyaayyjuupyu)

Sorry

Ndasubiza
တောင်းပန်ပါတယ် (taunggpaanpartaal)

Bye

N’agasaga
နုတ်ဆက်ပါတယ် (notesaatpartaal)

I Love You

Ndi waramutse
မင်းကိုချစ်တယ် (mainnkohkyittaal)

Excuse Me

Ndasaba
ဆင်ခြေဆင်လက် ငါ့ကိုအ (Sainhkyaysainlaat ngarko a)

Dialects

Dialect 1

Rwanda-Rundi
Arakanese

Where They Speak

Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda
Bangladesh, India, Myanmar

How Many People Speak

20,000,000.002,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Ha
Tavoyan

Where They Speak

Tanzania
Myanmar

How Many People Speak

990,000.00440,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Shubi
Intha

Where They Speak

Tanzania
Burma

How Many People Speak

153,000.0090,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

65
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

8.80 million43.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.13 %0.50 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

8.80 million33.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

12.00 million10.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

íkiRǔndi
ဗမာစကား (bama saka)

Alternative Names

Rundi, Urundi
Bama, Bamachaka, Myanmar, Myen, myanma bhasa

French Name

rundi
birman

German Name

Kirundi
Birmanisch

Pronunciation

[kɪˈrʊndi]
[bəmɛ̀]

Ethnicity

Hutu, Tutsi, and Twa
Bamar people

History

Origin

1500
1113 AD

Language Family

Niger-Congo Family
Sino-Tibetan Family

Subgroup

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Tibeto-Burman

Branch

-
-

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
Old Burmese, Middle Burmese, Burmese

Standard Forms

Kirundi
Modern Burmese

Language Position

8643
1 120
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Signed Forms

Kirundi Sign Language
Burmese sign language

Scope

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Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

rn
my

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

run
mya

ISO 639 2/B

run
bur

ISO 639 3

run
mya

ISO 639 6

run
mya

Glottocode

rund1242
sout3159

Linguasphere

No data available
No data available

Types of Language

Language Type

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Living

Language Linguistic Typology

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Subject-Object-Verb

Language Morphological Typology

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Analytic, Isolating

Kirundi and Burmese Alphabets

Kirundi and Burmese Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Kirundi and Burmese. In Kirundi Alphabets there are 21 letters while in Burmese Alphabets there are 33 letters. To learn Kirundi and Burmese languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Kirundi and Burmese 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 Burmese greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Kirundi and Burmese are Most Spoken Languages.

All Kirundi and Burmese 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 Burmese dialects. Various dialects of Kirundi and Burmese language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Kirundi are spoken in different Kirundi Speaking Countries whereas Burmese Dialects are spoken in different Burmese speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Kirundi vs Burmese Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Kirundi dialects include: Rwanda-Rundi, Ha. Burmese dialects include: Arakanese , Tavoyan. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Kirundi and Burmese Speaking population

Kirundi and Burmese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Kirundi and Burmese languages can be compared. The total count of Kirundi and Burmese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Kirundi language is 0.13 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Burmese language is 0.50 %. 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 Burmese on Kirundi vs Burmese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Kirundi and Burmese Language Codes

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