Countries
Burma
European Union, Latvia
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Burundi, Gambia
Latvia
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
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
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Latvian State Language Center
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.
- The first written form of Latvian dates from 16th century was found in religious texts.
- The old latvian language was based on the a Gothic script.
Similar To
Kinyarwanda Language
Lithuanian Language
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2133
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
59
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
1924
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
36 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Bwakeye
Sveiki
Thank You
Urakoze
Paldies
How Are You?
Urakomeye?
Kā jums klājas?
Good Night
Ijoro ryiza
Ar labunakti
Good Evening
Mwiriwe
Labvakar
Good Afternoon
Mwiriwe
Labdien
Good Morning
Mwaramutse
Labrīt
Please
Ndagusavye
lūdzu
Sorry
Ndasubiza
Piedodiet!
Bye
N’agasaga
Uz redzēšanos
I Love You
Ndi waramutse
Es tevi mīlu
Excuse Me
Ndasaba
Piedodiet!
Dialect 1
Rwanda-Rundi
Livonian
Where They Speak
Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda
Latvia
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.001,500,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Ha
Middle Latvian
Where They Speak
Tanzania
Latvia
How Many People Speak
990,000.002,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Shubi
High Latvian
Where They Speak
Tanzania
France, Latvia
How Many People Speak
153,000.001,500,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
63
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
8.80 million1.75 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.13 %0.07 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
8.80 million1.75 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
12.00 million2.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
íkiRǔndi
latviešu valoda
Alternative Names
Rundi, Urundi
Lettish
French Name
rundi
letton
German Name
Kirundi
Lettisch
Pronunciation
[kɪˈrʊndi]
[ˈlætviən]
Ethnicity
Hutu, Tutsi, and Twa
Latvians or Letts
Origin
1500
1530
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Baltic
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Kirundi
Latvian
Language Position
869
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Kirundi Sign Language
Latvian Sign Language
Scope
-
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
rn
lv
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
run
lav
ISO 639 2/B
run
lav
ISO 639 3
run
lav
ISO 639 6
run
lav
Glottocode
rund1242
latv1249
Linguasphere
No data available
54-AAB-a
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
Synthetic