Countries
Burma
Estonia, European Union
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Burundi, Gambia
Estonia, Gambia
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
Denmark, Russia, Sweden
Regulated By
-
Institute of the Estonian Language
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.
- Estonian language is considered to be powerful symbol of Estonian identity and culture.
- Estonian language has adopted many words with Finnish language.
Similar To
Kinyarwanda Language
Finnish
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2127
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
59
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
1918
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
62
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
36 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Bwakeye
Tere
Thank You
Urakoze
aitäh
How Are You?
Urakomeye?
kuidas sul läheb
Good Night
Ijoro ryiza
Head ööd
Good Evening
Mwiriwe
Tere õhtust
Good Afternoon
Mwiriwe
Tere päevast
Good Morning
Mwaramutse
Tere hommikust
Please
Ndagusavye
Palun
Sorry
Ndasubiza
Vabandust
Bye
N’agasaga
Head aega
I Love You
Ndi waramutse
ma armastan sind
Excuse Me
Ndasaba
Vabandage
Dialect 1
Rwanda-Rundi
Keskmurre
Where They Speak
Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda
Gabon, Northeastern coast of Estonia
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.001,300,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Ha
Tartu
Where They Speak
Tanzania
Georgia, South Estonia
How Many People Speak
990,000.001,300,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Shubi
Idamurre
Where They Speak
Tanzania
France, Northwestern shore of Lake Peipsi.
How Many People Speak
153,000.001,300,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
68
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
8.80 million1.10 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.13 %0.03 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
8.80 million0.95 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
12.00 million1.10 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
íkiRǔndi
eesti keel
Alternative Names
Rundi, Urundi
Eesti keel
French Name
rundi
estonien
German Name
Kirundi
Estnisch
Pronunciation
[kɪˈrʊndi]
[eˈstˑoˑniˑa]
Ethnicity
Hutu, Tutsi, and Twa
Estonians
Origin
1500
13th century
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Uralic Family
Subgroup
-
Finno-Ugric
Branch
-
Finnic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Kirundi
Estonian
Language Position
8622
1
120
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Signed Forms
Kirundi Sign Language
Estonian Sign Language
Scope
-
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
rn
et
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
run
est
ISO 639 2/B
run
est
ISO 639 3
run
est
ISO 639 6
run
est
Glottocode
rund1242
esto1258
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
Agglutinative