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Kirundi and Tibetan


Tibetan and Kirundi


Countries

Countries
Burma  
China, Nepal  

Total No. Of Countries
1  
14
2  
13

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
-  
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  

Derived From
-  
-  

Alphabets

Alphabets in
Kirundi-Alphabets.jpg#200  
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200  

Alphabets
21  
3
35  
17

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5  
2
5  
2

How Many Consonants
19  
9
30  
20

Scripts
Latin  
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille  

Writing Direction
-  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
6  
5
2  
1

Time Taken to Learn
36 weeks  
13
24 weeks  
6

Greetings

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།  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Rwanda-Rundi  
Central Tibetan  

Where They Speak
Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda  
China, India, Nepal  

How Many People Speak
20,000,000.00  
29
1,200,000.00  
99+

Dialect 2
Ha  
Khams Tibetan  

Where They Speak
Tanzania  
Bhutan, China  

How Many People Speak
990,000.00  
99+
1,400,000.00  
99+

Dialect 3
Shubi  
Amdo Tibetan  

Where They Speak
Tanzania  
China  

How Many People Speak
153,000.00  
99+
1,800,000.00  
99+

Total No. Of Dialects
6  
6
6  
6

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
8.80 million  
99+
1.20 million  
99+

Speaking Population
0.13 %  
99+
0.05 %  
99+

Native Speakers
8.80 million  
99+
1.20 million  
99+

Second Language Speakers
12.00 million  
38
6.00 million  
99+

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  

History

Origin
1500  
c. 650  

Language Family
Niger-Congo Family  
Sino-Tibetan Family  

Subgroup
-  
Tibeto-Burman  

Branch
-  
-  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
No early forms  
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan  

Standard Forms
Kirundi  
Standard Tibetan  

Language Position
86  
99+
29  
27

Signed Forms
Kirundi Sign Language  
Tibetan Sign Language  

Scope
-  
-  

Code

ISO 639 1
rn  
bo  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
run  
bod  

ISO 639 2/B
run  
tib  

ISO 639 3
run  
bod  

ISO 639 6
run  
bod  

Glottocode
rund1242  
tibe1272  

Linguasphere
No data available  
No data Available  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
-  
-  

Language Linguistic Typology
-  
-  

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.

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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.

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