Countries
Burma
European Union, Malta
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Burundi, Gambia
Malta
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
Australia, Canada, Italy, United States of America
Regulated By
-
National Council for the Maltese Language
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.
- Maltese language is the only semitic language written in Latin characters.
- Maltese language has borrowed many loan words from English, Italian and French.
Similar To
Kinyarwanda Language
Western Arabic Dialects
Derived From
-
Roman Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2130
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
56
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
1924
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
-
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
36 weeks30 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Bwakeye
Ħello
Thank You
Urakoze
Grazzi
How Are You?
Urakomeye?
Kif int?
Good Night
Ijoro ryiza
Il-Lejla it-tajba
Good Evening
Mwiriwe
Il-Lejla it-tajba
Good Afternoon
Mwiriwe
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
Good Morning
Mwaramutse
L-għodwa t-tajba
Please
Ndagusavye
Jekk jogħġbok
Sorry
Ndasubiza
Skużani!
Bye
N’agasaga
Ċaw
I Love You
Ndi waramutse
Inħobbok ħafna
Excuse Me
Ndasaba
Skużi!
Dialect 1
Rwanda-Rundi
Qormi
Where They Speak
Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda
Malta
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.00520,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Ha
Żejtun
Where They Speak
Tanzania
Malta
How Many People Speak
990,000.00500,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Shubi
Not Present
Where They Speak
Tanzania
-
How Many People Speak
153,000.00500,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
62
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
8.80 million0.52 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.13 %0.02 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
8.80 million0.52 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
12.00 million0.50 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
íkiRǔndi
Malti
Alternative Names
Rundi, Urundi
Malti
French Name
rundi
maltais
German Name
Kirundi
Maltesisch
Pronunciation
[kɪˈrʊndi]
[mɔːltiːz]
Ethnicity
Hutu, Tutsi, and Twa
Maltese
Origin
1500
c. 1470
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
-
Semitic
Branch
-
North Abric
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Kirundi
Maltese
Language Position
8625
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Kirundi Sign Language
Maltese Sign Language
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
rn
mt
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
run
mlt
ISO 639 2/B
run
mlt
ISO 639 3
run
mlt
ISO 639 6
run
mlt
Glottocode
rund1242
malt1254
Linguasphere
No data available
12-AAC-c
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Synthetic