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Kirundi
Kirundi

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Countries

Countries

Burma
Barbados, Belize, Botswana, Cameroon, Canada, Dominica, Fiji, Ghana, India, Ireland, Jamaica, Kenya, Malta, Mauritius, Micronesia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Samoa, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Somaliland, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, United Kingdom, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Total No. Of Countries

133
0 46
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National Language

Burundi, Gambia
Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Gibraltar, Grenada, Guam, Guyana, Jersey, Montserrat, Nauru, Singapore, Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom, United States of America

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Singapore

Speaking Continents

Africa, Asia
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, South America

Minority Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
South Africa

Regulated By

-
-

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.
  • Most of the English words begin with the letter S than any other letter.
  • English is third most commonly spoken language in the world.

Similar To

Kinyarwanda Language
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and German Languages

Derived From

-
Latin

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2126
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

55
0 32
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How Many Consonants

1921
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Latin

Writing Direction

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Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

67
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

36 weeks6 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Bwakeye
Hello

Thank You

Urakoze
Thank you

How Are You?

Urakomeye?
How are you?

Good Night

Ijoro ryiza
Good Night

Good Evening

Mwiriwe
Good Evening

Good Afternoon

Mwiriwe
Good Afternoon

Good Morning

Mwaramutse
Good Morning

Please

Ndagusavye
Please

Sorry

Ndasubiza
Sorry

Bye

N’agasaga
Bye

I Love You

Ndi waramutse
I love you

Excuse Me

Ndasaba
Excuse Me

Dialects

Dialect 1

Rwanda-Rundi
American English

Where They Speak

Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda
United States of America

How Many People Speak

20,000,000.00225,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Ha
Hiberno-English

Where They Speak

Tanzania
Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom

How Many People Speak

990,000.004,500,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Shubi
Welsh English

Where They Speak

Tanzania
United Kingdom

How Many People Speak

153,000.002,500,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

6188
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

8.80 million1,200.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.13 %5.43 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

8.80 million400.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

12.00 million400.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

íkiRǔndi
English

Alternative Names

Rundi, Urundi
English

French Name

rundi
anglais

German Name

Kirundi
Englisch

Pronunciation

[kɪˈrʊndi]
/ˈɪŋɡlɪʃ/

Ethnicity

Hutu, Tutsi, and Twa
English people

History

Origin

1500
5th Century AD

Language Family

Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

-
-

Branch

-
-

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English and English

Standard Forms

Kirundi
Standard English

Language Position

863
1 120
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Signed Forms

Kirundi Sign Language
Signed English

Scope

-
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

rn
en

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

run
eng

ISO 639 2/B

run
eng

ISO 639 3

run
eng

ISO 639 6

run
engs

Glottocode

rund1242
stan1293

Linguasphere

No data available
52-ABA

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, Fusional, Isolating, Synthetic

Kirundi and English Alphabets

Kirundi and English Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Kirundi and English. In Kirundi Alphabets there are 21 letters while in English Alphabets there are 26 letters. To learn Kirundi and English languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Kirundi and English 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 English greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Kirundi and English are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Kirundi and English Speaking population

Kirundi and English speaking population is one of the factors based on which Kirundi and English languages can be compared. The total count of Kirundi and English Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Kirundi language is 0.13 % whereas the percentage of people speaking English language is 5.43 %. 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 English on Kirundi vs English where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Kirundi and English Language Codes

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