Countries
Burma
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
Total No. Of Countries
15
0
46
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National Language
Burundi, Gambia
China, Taiwan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Indonesia, Malaysia
Regulated By
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Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin 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.
- Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
- In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
Similar To
Kinyarwanda Language
Japanese and Korean Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2126
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
524
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
1923
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
36 weeks88 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Bwakeye
您好 (Nín hǎo)
Thank You
Urakoze
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
How Are You?
Urakomeye?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
Good Night
Ijoro ryiza
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
Good Evening
Mwiriwe
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
Good Afternoon
Mwiriwe
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
Good Morning
Mwaramutse
早安 (Zǎo ān)
Please
Ndagusavye
请 (Qǐng)
Sorry
Ndasubiza
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
Bye
N’agasaga
再见 (Zàijiàn)
I Love You
Ndi waramutse
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
Excuse Me
Ndasaba
劳驾 (Láojià)
Dialect 1
Rwanda-Rundi
Mandarin
Where They Speak
Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.00960,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Ha
Wu
Where They Speak
Tanzania
China, United States of America
How Many People Speak
990,000.0080,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Shubi
Yue
Where They Speak
Tanzania
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
How Many People Speak
153,000.0060,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
610
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
8.80 million1,051.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.13 %16.00 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
8.80 million873.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
12.00 million178.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
íkiRǔndi
中文 (zhōngwén)
Alternative Names
Rundi, Urundi
Zhongwen, Hanyu
French Name
rundi
chinois
German Name
Kirundi
Chinesisch
Pronunciation
[kɪˈrʊndi]
[ʈʂʰíŋ] [huà]
Ethnicity
Hutu, Tutsi, and Twa
Han
Origin
1500
1250 BC
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Kirundi
Standard Chinese
Language Position
861
1
120
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Signed Forms
Kirundi Sign Language
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
rn
zh
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
run
zho
ISO 639 2/B
run
chi
ISO 639 3
run
zho
ISO 639 6
run
zho
Glottocode
rund1242
sini1245
Linguasphere
No data available
79-AAA
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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Analytic, Isolating