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Kirundi
Kirundi

Japanese
Japanese



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Countries

Countries

Burma
Japan

Total No. Of Countries

11
0 46
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National Language

Burundi, Gambia
Japan

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Africa, Asia
Asia, Pacific

Minority Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Palau

Regulated By

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Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education

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 Japanese Language, there are 4 different ways to address people: kun, chan, san and sama.
  • There are many words in Japanese language which end with vowel letter, which determines the structure and rhythm of Japanese.

Similar To

Kinyarwanda Language
Korean Language

Derived From

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-

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2199
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

55
0 32
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How Many Consonants

1914
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Kana

Writing Direction

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Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

65
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

36 weeks88 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Bwakeye
こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)

Thank You

Urakoze
ありがとう (Arigatō)

How Are You?

Urakomeye?
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)

Good Night

Ijoro ryiza
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)

Good Evening

Mwiriwe
こんばんは (Konbanwa)

Good Afternoon

Mwiriwe
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)

Good Morning

Mwaramutse
おはよう (Ohayō)

Please

Ndagusavye
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)

Sorry

Ndasubiza
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)

Bye

N’agasaga
さようなら (Sayōnara)

I Love You

Ndi waramutse
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)

Excuse Me

Ndasaba
すみません (Sumimasen)

Dialects

Dialect 1

Rwanda-Rundi
Sanuki

Where They Speak

Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda
Kagawa

How Many People Speak

20,000,000.001,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Ha
Hakata

Where They Speak

Tanzania
Fukuoka

How Many People Speak

990,000.00127,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Shubi
Kansai

Where They Speak

Tanzania
kansai

How Many People Speak

153,000.00127,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

631
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

8.80 million128.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.13 %1.90 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

8.80 million128.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

12.00 million3.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

íkiRǔndi
日本語

Alternative Names

Rundi, Urundi
Nihongo

French Name

rundi
japonais

German Name

Kirundi
Japanisch

Pronunciation

[kɪˈrʊndi]
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]

Ethnicity

Hutu, Tutsi, and Twa
Japanese (Yamato)

History

Origin

1500
1185

Language Family

Niger-Congo Family
Japonic Family

Subgroup

-
-

Branch

-
-

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese

Standard Forms

Kirundi
Japanese

Language Position

868
1 120
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Signed Forms

Kirundi Sign Language
Signed Japanese

Scope

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Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

rn
ja

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

run
jpn

ISO 639 2/B

run
jpn

ISO 639 3

run
jpn

ISO 639 6

run
jpn

Glottocode

rund1242
nucl1643

Linguasphere

No data available
45-CAA-a

Types of Language

Language Type

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Living

Language Linguistic Typology

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Subject-Object-Verb

Language Morphological Typology

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Agglutinative, Synthetic

Kirundi and Japanese Alphabets

Kirundi and Japanese Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Kirundi and Japanese. In Kirundi Alphabets there are 21 letters while in Japanese Alphabets there are 99 letters. To learn Kirundi and Japanese languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Kirundi and Japanese 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 Japanese greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Kirundi and Japanese are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Kirundi and Japanese Speaking population

Kirundi and Japanese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Kirundi and Japanese languages can be compared. The total count of Kirundi and Japanese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Kirundi language is 0.13 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Japanese language is 1.90 %. 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 Japanese on Kirundi vs Japanese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Kirundi and Japanese Language Codes

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