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Kirundi
Kirundi

Persian
Persian



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Countries

Countries

Burma
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan

Total No. Of Countries

13
0 46
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National Language

Burundi, Gambia
Afganistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka

Speaking Continents

Africa, Asia
Asia

Minority Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates

Regulated By

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Academy of Persian Language and Literature (فرهنگستان زبان و اد, Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan

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.
  • In Iran, Parsi language is known as Farsi, while in Afghanistan Persian language is known as Dari.
  • Persian language has borrowed many loanwords from the Arabic language.

Similar To

Kinyarwanda Language
Pashto and Balochi Languages

Derived From

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Arabic Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2132
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

56
0 32
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How Many Consonants

1923
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Arabic

Writing Direction

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Right-To-Left, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

66
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

36 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Bwakeye
سلام

Thank You

Urakoze
متشکرم

How Are You?

Urakomeye?
چطور هستید?

Good Night

Ijoro ryiza
شب بخیر

Good Evening

Mwiriwe
عصر بخیر

Good Afternoon

Mwiriwe
بعد از ظهر بخیر

Good Morning

Mwaramutse
صبح به خیر

Please

Ndagusavye
لطفا

Sorry

Ndasubiza
متاسف

Bye

N’agasaga
خدا حافظ

I Love You

Ndi waramutse
من شما را دوست دارم

Excuse Me

Ndasaba
ببخشيد!

Dialects

Dialect 1

Rwanda-Rundi
Western Persian

Where They Speak

Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda
Iran, Iraq

How Many People Speak

20,000,000.0047,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Ha
Dari Persian

Where They Speak

Tanzania
Afganistan

How Many People Speak

990,000.0012,500,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Shubi
Tajik Persian

Where They Speak

Tanzania
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan

How Many People Speak

153,000.007,900,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

612
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

8.80 million65.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.13 %0.99 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

8.80 million65.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

12.00 million110.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

íkiRǔndi
فارسی

Alternative Names

Rundi, Urundi
New Persian, Parsi, Persian, West Persian

French Name

rundi
persan

German Name

Kirundi
Persisch

Pronunciation

[kɪˈrʊndi]
[fɒːɾˈsiː]

Ethnicity

Hutu, Tutsi, and Twa
Persian people

History

Origin

1500
1500 BC

Language Family

Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

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Indo-Iranian

Branch

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Iranian

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
Old Persian and Middle Persian

Standard Forms

Kirundi
Persian

Language Position

8623
1 120
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Signed Forms

Kirundi Sign Language
Persian Sign Language

Scope

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Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

rn
fa

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

run
fas

ISO 639 2/B

run
per

ISO 639 3

run
pes

ISO 639 6

run
pers

Glottocode

rund1242
fars1254

Linguasphere

No data available
58-AAC-c

Types of Language

Language Type

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Living

Language Linguistic Typology

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Subject-Object-Verb

Language Morphological Typology

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Synthetic

Kirundi and Persian Alphabets

Kirundi and Persian Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Kirundi and Persian. In Kirundi Alphabets there are 21 letters while in Persian Alphabets there are 32 letters. To learn Kirundi and Persian languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Kirundi and Persian languages. The Kirundi phonology consist Kirundi vowels and Kirundi consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Kirundi greetings vs Persian greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Kirundi and Persian are Most Spoken Languages.

All Kirundi and Persian Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Kirundi and Persian dialects. Various dialects of Kirundi and Persian language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Kirundi are spoken in different Kirundi Speaking Countries whereas Persian Dialects are spoken in different Persian speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Kirundi vs Persian Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Kirundi dialects include: Rwanda-Rundi, Ha. Persian dialects include: Western Persian , Dari Persian. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Kirundi and Persian Speaking population

Kirundi and Persian speaking population is one of the factors based on which Kirundi and Persian languages can be compared. The total count of Kirundi and Persian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Kirundi language is 0.13 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Persian language is 0.99 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Kirundi and Persian on Kirundi vs Persian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Kirundi and Persian Language Codes

Kirundi and Persian language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Kirundi and Persian Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.