Countries
Burma
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
Total No. Of Countries
19
0
46
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National Language
Burundi, Gambia
Austria
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia
Europe
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania
Regulated By
-
Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics
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.
- In croatian language, everywhere there are words without vowels.
- Though croatian language was born in 9th century, the first written document in croatian was in 11th century.
Similar To
Kinyarwanda Language
Serbain and Bosnian
Derived From
-
Church Slavonic
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2130
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
55
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1925
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
63
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
36 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Bwakeye
bok
Thank You
Urakoze
hvala
How Are You?
Urakomeye?
kako si
Good Night
Ijoro ryiza
laku noć
Good Evening
Mwiriwe
dobra večer
Good Afternoon
Mwiriwe
dobar dan
Good Morning
Mwaramutse
dobro jutro
Please
Ndagusavye
molim
Sorry
Ndasubiza
Oprostite
Bye
N’agasaga
Doviđenja
I Love You
Ndi waramutse
Volim te
Excuse Me
Ndasaba
Ispričavam se
Dialect 1
Rwanda-Rundi
Chakavian
Where They Speak
Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda
Croatia
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.00660,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Ha
Chakavian
Where They Speak
Tanzania
Croatia
How Many People Speak
990,000.005,500,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Shubi
Shtokavian
Where They Speak
Tanzania
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania
How Many People Speak
153,000.0013,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
679
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
8.80 million89.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.13 %89.00 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
8.80 million5.60 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
12.00 million1.25 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
íkiRǔndi
hrvatski
Alternative Names
Rundi, Urundi
Hrvatski
French Name
rundi
croate
German Name
Kirundi
Kroatisch
Pronunciation
[kɪˈrʊndi]
[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]
Ethnicity
Hutu, Tutsi, and Twa
Croats
Origin
1500
9th century
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Kirundi
Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian
Language Position
8623
1
120
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Signed Forms
Kirundi Sign Language
Croatian Sign Language
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
rn
hr
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
run
hrv
ISO 639 2/B
run
hrv
ISO 639 3
run
hrv
ISO 639 6
run
hrv
Glottocode
rund1242
croa1245
Linguasphere
No data available
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Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
Fusional, Synthetic