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
-
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
-
-
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
-
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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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)
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
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
631
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
8.80 million128.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.13 %1.90 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
8.80 million128.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
12.00 million3.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
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)
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
-
Individual
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
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
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Agglutinative, Synthetic