Countries
Burma
India, Pakistan
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Burundi, Gambia
Pakistan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Pakistan
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia
Asia, Oceania
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
India
Regulated By
-
National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language, India, National Language Authority, Pakistan
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.
- Urdu is a language of beauty and grace, that adds meaning to prose and charm to poetry.
- Different languages such as Arabic, Persian and Turkish gave birth and richness to Urdu.
Similar To
Kinyarwanda Language
Arabic and Hindi Languages
Derived From
-
Ghaznavid Persian Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2152
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
510
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
1940
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Latin
Arabic
Writing Direction
-
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
64
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
36 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Bwakeye
خوش آمديد
Thank You
Urakoze
آپ کا شکریہ
How Are You?
Urakomeye?
آپ کیسے ہیں؟
Good Night
Ijoro ryiza
گڈ نائٹ
Good Evening
Mwiriwe
سلام علیکم
Good Afternoon
Mwiriwe
گڈ آفٹر نون
Good Morning
Mwaramutse
گڈ مارننگ
Please
Ndagusavye
براہ مہربانی
Sorry
Ndasubiza
معاف کرنا
Bye
N’agasaga
الوداع
I Love You
Ndi waramutse
مجھے تم سے محبت
Excuse Me
Ndasaba
معاف کیجئے گا
Dialect 1
Rwanda-Rundi
Dakhini
Where They Speak
Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda
India
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.0011,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Ha
Hyderabadi Urdu
Where They Speak
Tanzania
India
How Many People Speak
990,000.0069,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Shubi
Rekhta
Where They Speak
Tanzania
South Asia
How Many People Speak
153,000.0069,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
63
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
8.80 million104.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.13 %0.99 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
8.80 million61.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
12.00 million43.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
íkiRǔndi
اُردُو
Alternative Names
Rundi, Urundi
Bihari
French Name
rundi
ourdou
German Name
Kirundi
Urdu
Pronunciation
[kɪˈrʊndi]
[ˈʊrd̪u]
Ethnicity
Hutu, Tutsi, and Twa
Urdu-speaking people
Origin
1500
12th Century CE
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Kirundi
Modern Standard Urdu
Language Position
8620
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Kirundi Sign Language
Signed Urdu
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
rn
ur
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
run
urd
ISO 639 2/B
run
urd
ISO 639 3
run
urd
ISO 639 6
run
urd
Glottocode
rund1242
urdu1245
Linguasphere
No data available
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Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
Fusional