Countries
Burma
India, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Burundi, Gambia
Nepal
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
People's Republic of China
Regulated By
-
Language Academy of Nepal
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.
- Before the term "Nepali" was coined, historically the language was first called the Khas language, Gorkhali or Gukhali.
- Nepali has borrowed many loanwords from neighboring Tibeto-Burmese languages.
Similar To
Kinyarwanda Language
Hindi
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2148
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
512
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
1936
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Latin
Devanagari
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
नमस्ते (namaste)
Thank You
Urakoze
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
How Are You?
Urakomeye?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Good Night
Ijoro ryiza
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
Good Evening
Mwiriwe
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
Good Afternoon
Mwiriwe
Good afternoon
Good Morning
Mwaramutse
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
Please
Ndagusavye
कृपया
Sorry
Ndasubiza
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Bye
N’agasaga
नमस्ते (namaste)
I Love You
Ndi waramutse
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Excuse Me
Ndasaba
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Dialect 1
Rwanda-Rundi
Doteli
Where They Speak
Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda
Nepal
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.00790,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Ha
Bajhangi
Where They Speak
Tanzania
India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
990,000.0017,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Shubi
Baitadeli
Where They Speak
Tanzania
Nepal
How Many People Speak
153,000.0017,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
612
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
8.80 million30.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.13 %0.25 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
8.80 million25.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
12.00 million5.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
íkiRǔndi
नेपाली (nēpālī)
Alternative Names
Rundi, Urundi
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
French Name
rundi
népalais
German Name
Kirundi
Nepali
Pronunciation
[kɪˈrʊndi]
[neˈpali]
Ethnicity
Hutu, Tutsi, and Twa
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Origin
1500
19 BC
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
Standard Forms
Kirundi
Nepali
Language Position
8659
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Kirundi Sign Language
Signed Nepali
Scope
-
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
rn
ne
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
run
nep
ISO 639 2/B
run
nep
ISO 639 3
run
npi
ISO 639 6
run
nep
Glottocode
rund1242
nepa1254
Linguasphere
No data available
12
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Agglutinative