Countries
Burma
China, Nepal
National Language
Burundi, Gambia
Nepal, Tibet
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
China, India, Nepal
Regulated By
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Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan 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.
- Tibetan dialects vary alot, so it's difficult for tibetans to understand each other if they are not from same area.
- Tibetan is tonal with six tones in all: short low, long low, high falling, low falling, short high, long high.
Similar To
Kinyarwanda Language
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Alphabets in
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Scripts
Latin
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
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Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
Bwakeye
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Thank You
Urakoze
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
How Are You?
Urakomeye?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Good Night
Ijoro ryiza
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Good Evening
Mwiriwe
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Afternoon
Mwiriwe
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Morning
Mwaramutse
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Please
Ndagusavye
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Sorry
Ndasubiza
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Bye
N’agasaga
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
I Love You
Ndi waramutse
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Excuse Me
Ndasaba
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Dialect 1
Rwanda-Rundi
Central Tibetan
Where They Speak
Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda
China, India, Nepal
Dialect 2
Ha
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
Tanzania
Bhutan, China
Dialect 3
Shubi
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
Tanzania
China
Native Name
íkiRǔndi
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Alternative Names
Rundi, Urundi
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
French Name
rundi
tibétain
German Name
Kirundi
Tibetisch
Pronunciation
[kɪˈrʊndi]
[tibetan]
Ethnicity
Hutu, Tutsi, and Twa
tibetan people
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
Kirundi
Standard Tibetan
Signed Forms
Kirundi Sign Language
Tibetan Sign Language
Glottocode
rund1242
tibe1272
Linguasphere
No data available
No data Available
Language Linguistic Typology
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Language Morphological Typology
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All Kirundi and Tibetan 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 Tibetan dialects. Various dialects of Kirundi and Tibetan language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Kirundi are spoken in different Kirundi Speaking Countries whereas Tibetan Dialects are spoken in different Tibetan speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Kirundi vs Tibetan Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Kirundi dialects include: Rwanda-Rundi, Ha. Tibetan dialects include: Central Tibetan , Khams Tibetan. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.
Kirundi and Tibetan Speaking population
Kirundi and Tibetan speaking population is one of the factors based on which Kirundi and Tibetan languages can be compared. The total count of Kirundi and Tibetan Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Kirundi language is 0.13 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Tibetan language is 0.05 %. 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 Tibetan on Kirundi vs Tibetan where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Kirundi and Tibetan Language Codes
Kirundi and Tibetan language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Kirundi and Tibetan Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.