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Kirundi
Kirundi

German
German



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Countries

Countries

Burma
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland

Total No. Of Countries

17
0 46
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National Language

Burundi, Gambia
Germany

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
North Dakota, United States of America

Speaking Continents

Africa, Asia
Europe

Minority Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia

Regulated By

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Council for German Orthography

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.
  • One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
  • The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.

Similar To

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

Derived From

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Albanian Languages

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2126
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

510
0 32
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How Many Consonants

199
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Latin

Writing Direction

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Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

66
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

36 weeks30 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Bwakeye
hallo

Thank You

Urakoze
Danke

How Are You?

Urakomeye?
Wie geht es dir?

Good Night

Ijoro ryiza
gute Nacht

Good Evening

Mwiriwe
guten Abend

Good Afternoon

Mwiriwe
guten Tag

Good Morning

Mwaramutse
guten Morgen

Please

Ndagusavye
bitte

Sorry

Ndasubiza
Verzeihung

Bye

N’agasaga
Tschüs

I Love You

Ndi waramutse
Ich liebe dich

Excuse Me

Ndasaba
Entschuldigung

Dialects

Dialect 1

Rwanda-Rundi
Swiss German

Where They Speak

Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda
Switzerland

How Many People Speak

20,000,000.004,500,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Ha
Swabian German

Where They Speak

Tanzania
Germany

How Many People Speak

990,000.00820,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Shubi
Texas German

Where They Speak

Tanzania
Texas

How Many People Speak

153,000.006,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

628
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

8.80 million229.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.13 %1.39 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

8.80 million101.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

12.00 million128.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

íkiRǔndi
Deutsch

Alternative Names

Rundi, Urundi
Deutsch, Tedesco

French Name

rundi
allemand

German Name

Kirundi
Deutsch

Pronunciation

[kɪˈrʊndi]
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]

Ethnicity

Hutu, Tutsi, and Twa
Germans

History

Origin

1500
6th Century AD

Language Family

Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

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Germanic

Branch

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Western

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
No early forms

Standard Forms

Kirundi
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German

Language Position

869
1 120
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Signed Forms

Kirundi Sign Language
Signed German

Scope

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Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

rn
de

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

run
deu

ISO 639 2/B

run
ger

ISO 639 3

run
deu

ISO 639 6

run
deus

Glottocode

rund1242
high1287, uppe1397

Linguasphere

No data available
52-ACB–dl & -dm

Types of Language

Language Type

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Living

Language Linguistic Typology

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Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

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Fusional, Synthetic

Kirundi and German Alphabets

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

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

Kirundi and German Speaking population

Kirundi and German speaking population is one of the factors based on which Kirundi and German languages can be compared. The total count of Kirundi and German Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Kirundi language is 0.13 % whereas the percentage of people speaking German language is 1.39 %. 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 German on Kirundi vs German where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Kirundi and German Language Codes

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