Countries
Burma
India
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Burundi, Gambia
India
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
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.
- The earliest literature in Oriya was traced in 7th to 9th centuries.
- Since Odia is having a long literary history and has not borrowed largely from other languages, it is the 6th classical language in India.
Similar To
Kinyarwanda Language
Bengali and Assamese
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2142
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
511
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1931
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Bengali, Odia alphabet (Brahmic)
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
63
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
36 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Bwakeye
ନମସ୍କାର (namascara)
Thank You
Urakoze
ଧନ୍ୟବାଦ୍ (dhanyabaad)
How Are You?
Urakomeye?
କେମିତି ଅତ୍ଚନ୍ଥି? (kemiti achanti?)
Good Night
Ijoro ryiza
ସୁଭରାତ୍ର (shubharaatra)
Good Evening
Mwiriwe
ସୁଭସନ୍ଧ୍ୟା (subha sandhya)
Good Afternoon
Mwiriwe
ସୁଭ ଖରା ବେଳ (shubha kharaa bela)
Good Morning
Mwaramutse
ସୁପ୍ରଭାତ (suprabhaata)
Please
Ndagusavye
ଦୟାକରି
Sorry
Ndasubiza
ମୁଁ ଦୁଃଖିତ (mū duḥkhita)
Bye
N’agasaga
ସୁବିଦାୟ (shubidaaya)
I Love You
Ndi waramutse
ମୁଁ ତୁମକୁ ଭଲ ପାଏ (mu tumoku bhala paye)
Excuse Me
Ndasaba
କ୍ଷମା କରିବେ (kyamā karibe)
Dialect 1
Rwanda-Rundi
Baleswari
Where They Speak
Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda
India
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.0033,800,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Ha
Ganjami
Where They Speak
Tanzania
India
How Many People Speak
990,000.0033,800,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Shubi
Kosli
Where They Speak
Tanzania
India
How Many People Speak
153,000.00520,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
68
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
8.80 million33.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.13 %0.50 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
8.80 million33.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
12.00 million35.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
íkiRǔndi
ଓଡ଼ିଆ (ōṛiyā)
Alternative Names
Rundi, Urundi
Odisha, Odri, Odrum, Oliya, Uriya, Utkali, Vadiya, Yudhia
French Name
rundi
oriya
German Name
Kirundi
Oriya-Sprache
Pronunciation
[kɪˈrʊndi]
[ˈoɽia]
Ethnicity
Hutu, Tutsi, and Twa
Odias
Origin
1500
3 BC
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Kirundi
Standard Odia
Language Position
8632
1
120
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Signed Forms
Kirundi Sign Language
Indian Signing System
Scope
-
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
rn
or
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
run
ori
ISO 639 2/B
run
ori
ISO 639 3
run
ori
ISO 639 6
run
ori
Glottocode
rund1242
macr1269
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
-