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.
- Tulu script is similar to Thigalaya script, which was one of the earliest scripts such as Persian and Latin.
- Tulu is a protoDravidian i.e original language.
Similar To
Kinyarwanda Language
Kannada Language
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2151
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
516
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
1935
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Kannada Script
Writing Direction
-
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
65
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
36 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Bwakeye
Namaskara
Thank You
Urakoze
Mast Upakara.
How Are You?
Urakomeye?
Yencha Ullar?
Good Night
Ijoro ryiza
yedde rathre
Good Evening
Mwiriwe
yedde baiyya
Good Afternoon
Mwiriwe
yedde madhyana
Good Morning
Mwaramutse
yedde kaande
Please
Ndagusavye
Daya maltadu
Sorry
Ndasubiza
Yenna thapu aandu
Bye
N’agasaga
Barpe
I Love You
Ndi waramutse
Yank ninade preeti Malpuye
Excuse Me
Ndasaba
Kshamisi
Dialect 1
Rwanda-Rundi
Brahmin tulu
Where They Speak
Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda
Tamil Nadu
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.002,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Ha
Jain
Where They Speak
Tanzania
Tamil Nadu
How Many People Speak
990,000.001,900,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Shubi
Girijan
Where They Speak
Tanzania
Tamil Nadu
How Many People Speak
153,000.002.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
64
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
8.80 million1.70 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.13 %0.01 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
8.80 million1.70 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
12.00 million2.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
íkiRǔndi
Tulu
Alternative Names
Rundi, Urundi
Tal, Tallu, Thalu, Thulu, Tilu, Tullu, Tuluva Bhasa
French Name
rundi
-
German Name
Kirundi
Tulu
Pronunciation
[kɪˈrʊndi]
[ˈtulu]
Ethnicity
Hutu, Tutsi, and Twa
Tuluva
Origin
1500
14
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Dravidian Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Kirundi
Tulu
Language Position
8623
1
120
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Signed Forms
Kirundi Sign Language
Signed Tulu
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
rn
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
run
tcy
ISO 639 2/B
run
tul
ISO 639 3
run
tcy
ISO 639 6
run
tcy
Glottocode
rund1242
tulu1258
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
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