Countries
Burma
Hong Kong, Macau
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Burundi, Gambia
China, Guangdong
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Hawaii
Regulated By
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Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
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.
- Cantonese have lot of slangs, many of them include words that do not make sense at all and some also have English in them.
- Even though Cantonese and Mandarin are dialects of Chinese, Cantonese has 8 tones instead of Mandarin's 4.
Similar To
Kinyarwanda Language
Chinese Language
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2128
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
58
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
1920
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Latin
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
610
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
36 weeks88 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Bwakeye
您好
Thank You
Urakoze
谢谢
How Are You?
Urakomeye?
你好吗？
Good Night
Ijoro ryiza
晚安
Good Evening
Mwiriwe
晚上好
Good Afternoon
Mwiriwe
下午好
Good Morning
Mwaramutse
早上好
Please
Ndagusavye
请
Sorry
Ndasubiza
遗憾
Bye
N’agasaga
再见
I Love You
Ndi waramutse
我爱你
Excuse Me
Ndasaba
原谅我
Dialect 1
Rwanda-Rundi
Guangzhou
Where They Speak
Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda
outside mainland China
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.0071,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Ha
Xiguan
Where They Speak
Tanzania
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
990,000.0071,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Shubi
Hong Kong
Where They Speak
Tanzania
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
153,000.0070,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
63
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
8.80 million60.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.13 %16.00 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
8.80 million52.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
12.00 million71.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
íkiRǔndi
Kwang Tung Wa
Alternative Names
Rundi, Urundi
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
French Name
rundi
cantonais
German Name
Kirundi
Kantonesisch
Pronunciation
[kɪˈrʊndi]
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
Ethnicity
Hutu, Tutsi, and Twa
Han Chinese
Origin
1500
17th century
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Kirundi
Standard Cantonese
Language Position
861
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Kirundi Sign Language
Signed Cantonese
Scope
-
-
ISO 639 1
rn
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
run
yue
ISO 639 2/B
run
yue
ISO 639 3
run
No data available
ISO 639 6
run
yue
Glottocode
rund1242
cant1236
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
-
-
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
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