Countries
Burma
India, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Burundi, Gambia
India, Nepal
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Nepal
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
-
-
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.
- Earlier, Maithili language was considered as the dialect of Hindi and Bengali, however in the year 2003 Maithili achieved an independent language status in India.
- Maithili has rich literature.
Similar To
Kinyarwanda Language
Bhojpuri Language
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2147
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
58
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
1922
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Latin
Devanagari
Writing Direction
-
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
36 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Bwakeye
pranam
Thank You
Urakoze
dhanyabad
How Are You?
Urakomeye?
Aahan kehan chhi ?
Good Night
Ijoro ryiza
Śubharātri
Good Evening
Mwiriwe
shubh sandhya
Good Afternoon
Mwiriwe
dopahar ke bad namaskar
Good Morning
Mwaramutse
Suprabhaat
Please
Ndagusavye
kripaya
Sorry
Ndasubiza
maf karai
Bye
N’agasaga
Alavidā
I Love You
Ndi waramutse
hawm ahāṃ se prem karechi
Excuse Me
Ndasaba
kripaya
Dialect 1
Rwanda-Rundi
Tharuwat
Where They Speak
Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda
Nepal
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.0035,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Ha
Madhubani
Where They Speak
Tanzania
North India
How Many People Speak
990,000.0035,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Shubi
Khortha
Where They Speak
Tanzania
Deoghar, France
How Many People Speak
153,000.0035,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
615
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
8.80 million32.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.13 %0.41 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
8.80 million27.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
12.00 million2.80 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
íkiRǔndi
मैथिली (mɛtʰilī)
Alternative Names
Rundi, Urundi
Apabhramsa, Bihari, Maitili, Maitli, Methli, Tirahutia, Tirhuti, Tirhutia
French Name
rundi
maithili
German Name
Kirundi
Maithili
Pronunciation
[kɪˈrʊndi]
[ˈmaitʰili]
Ethnicity
Hutu, Tutsi, and Twa
Maithil
Origin
1500
14th century
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Kirundi
Standard Maithili
Language Position
8640
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Kirundi Sign Language
Maithili Sign Language
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
rn
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
run
mai
ISO 639 2/B
run
mai
ISO 639 3
run
mai
ISO 639 6
run
mai
Glottocode
rund1242
mait1250
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
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