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Kirundi
Kirundi

Portuguese
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Kirundi and Portuguese

Countries

Countries

Burma
Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, East Timor, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Macau, Mozambique, Portugal, São Tomé and Príncipe

Total No. Of Countries

110
0 46
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National Language

Burundi, Gambia
Portugal

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
United States of America

Speaking Continents

Africa, Asia
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, South America

Minority Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Australia, Daman and Diu, France, Germany, Goa, Italy, Japan, United States of America

Regulated By

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Academia Brasileira de Letras (Brazilian Literary Academy), Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, Classe de Letras

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.
  • Portuguese language has absorbed many words from French, Italian, Arabic and also from indigenous South American and African languages.
  • The first written document in Portuguese language was found in the 12th century.

Similar To

Kinyarwanda Language
Spanish and Galician Languages

Derived From

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Latin

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2123
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

59
0 32
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How Many Consonants

1919
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Latin

Writing Direction

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Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

66
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

36 weeks24 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Bwakeye
Olá

Thank You

Urakoze
obrigado

How Are You?

Urakomeye?
Como você está?

Good Night

Ijoro ryiza
boa noite

Good Evening

Mwiriwe
boa Noite

Good Afternoon

Mwiriwe
boa Tarde

Good Morning

Mwaramutse
bom Dia

Please

Ndagusavye
Por Favor

Sorry

Ndasubiza
pesaroso

Bye

N’agasaga
tchau

I Love You

Ndi waramutse
Eu te amo

Excuse Me

Ndasaba
desculpe me

Dialects

Dialect 1

Rwanda-Rundi
Brazilian Portuguese

Where They Speak

Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda
Brazil

How Many People Speak

20,000,000.00204,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Ha
European Portuguese

Where They Speak

Tanzania
Portugal

How Many People Speak

990,000.0010,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Shubi
Daman and Diu Portuguese creole

Where They Speak

Tanzania
Daman and Diu

How Many People Speak

153,000.004,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

626
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

8.80 million231.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.13 %3.27 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

8.80 million216.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

12.00 million15.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

íkiRǔndi
Português

Alternative Names

Rundi, Urundi
Português

French Name

rundi
portugais

German Name

Kirundi
Portugiesisch

Pronunciation

[kɪˈrʊndi]
[puɾtuˈɣeʃ], [poʁtuˈɡes]

Ethnicity

Hutu, Tutsi, and Twa
Portuguese people or portugueses

History

Origin

1500
3rd Century

Language Family

Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

-
Romance

Branch

-
-

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
Medieval Galician

Standard Forms

Kirundi
Portuguese

Language Position

866
1 120
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Signed Forms

Kirundi Sign Language
Signed Portuguese

Scope

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Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

rn
pt

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

run
por

ISO 639 2/B

run
por

ISO 639 3

run
por

ISO 639 6

run
por

Glottocode

rund1242
port1283

Linguasphere

No data available
51-AAA-a

Types of Language

Language Type

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Living

Language Linguistic Typology

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Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

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Kirundi and Portuguese Alphabets

Kirundi and Portuguese Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Kirundi and Portuguese. In Kirundi Alphabets there are 21 letters while in Portuguese Alphabets there are 23 letters. To learn Kirundi and Portuguese languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Kirundi and Portuguese 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 Portuguese greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Kirundi and Portuguese are Most Spoken Languages.

All Kirundi and Portuguese 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 Portuguese dialects. Various dialects of Kirundi and Portuguese language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Kirundi are spoken in different Kirundi Speaking Countries whereas Portuguese Dialects are spoken in different Portuguese speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Kirundi vs Portuguese Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Kirundi dialects include: Rwanda-Rundi, Ha. Portuguese dialects include: Brazilian Portuguese , European Portuguese. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Kirundi and Portuguese Speaking population

Kirundi and Portuguese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Kirundi and Portuguese languages can be compared. The total count of Kirundi and Portuguese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Kirundi language is 0.13 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Portuguese language is 3.27 %. 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 Portuguese on Kirundi vs Portuguese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Kirundi and Portuguese Language Codes

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