Kirundi

Xhosa

Kirundi and Xhosa

Kirundi

Xhosa

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Countries

Burma

South Africa

Total No. Of Countries

0 46

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National Language

Burundi, Gambia

South Africa

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries

Lesotho, South Africa

Speaking Continents

Africa, Asia

Africa

Minority Language

Not spoken in any of the countries

Botswana, Lesotho

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.

Xhosa has 15 click sounds, borrowed from the khoi-khoi and san languages of the South Africa.
The same sequence of consonants and vowels can have different meaning when said with different tones, so Xhosa is tonal.

Similar To

Kinyarwanda Language

Zulu, Swazi, and Ndebele

Derived From

Khoi-Khoi and San Languages

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2153

18 247

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Phonology

How Many Vowels

510

0 32

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How Many Consonants

1943

9 60

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Scripts

Latin

Writing Direction

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

2 12

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Time Taken to Learn

36 weeks44 weeks

3 88

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Greetings

Hello

Bwakeye

Molo

Thank You

Urakoze

Ndiyabulela

How Are You?

Urakomeye?

Unjani

Good Night

Ijoro ryiza

Ulale kakuhle

Good Evening

Mwiriwe

Ubusuku obuhle

Good Afternoon

Mwiriwe

Uben' emva kwemini entle

Good Morning

Mwaramutse

Molo

Please

Ndagusavye

Ndicela

Sorry

Ndasubiza

Ndicela uxolo

Bye

N’agasaga

Uhambe/Usale kakuhle

I Love You

Ndi waramutse

Ndiyakuthanda

Excuse Me

Ndasaba

Uxolo

Dialects

Dialect 1

Rwanda-Rundi

Gcaleka

Where They Speak

Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda

South Africa

How Many People Speak

20,000,000.0019,000,000.00

1.5 960000000

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Dialect 2

Thembu

Where They Speak

Tanzania

South Africa

How Many People Speak

990,000.0019,000,000.00

700 274000000

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Dialect 3

Shubi

Hlubi

Where They Speak

Tanzania

South Africa

How Many People Speak

153,000.0019.00

2 230000000

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Total No. Of Dialects

0 188

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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

8.80 million20.00 million

0 1200

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Speaking Population

0.13 %0.11 %

0 89

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Native Speakers

8.80 million8.20 million

0 873

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Second Language Speakers

12.00 million11.00 million

0.01 400

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Native Name

íkiRǔndi

isiXhosa

Alternative Names

Rundi, Urundi

“Cauzuh” (pej.), Isixhosa, Koosa, Xosa

French Name

rundi

xhosa

German Name

Kirundi

Xhosa-Sprache

Pronunciation

[kɪˈrʊndi]

[ˈkǁʰɔ̀ːsa]

Ethnicity

Hutu, Tutsi, and Twa

amaXhosa, amaBhaca

History

Origin

1500

16th Century

Language Family

Niger-Congo Family

Subgroup

Benue-Congo

Branch

Bantu

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms

Standard Forms

Kirundi

isiXhosa

Language Position

8621

1 120

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Signed Forms

Kirundi Sign Language

Signed Xhosa

Scope

Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

run

xho

ISO 639 2/B

run

xho

ISO 639 3

run

xho

ISO 639 6

run

xho

Glottocode

rund1242

xhos1239

Linguasphere

No data available

99-AUT-fa

Types of Language

Language Type

Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Kirundi and Xhosa Alphabets

Kirundi and Xhosa Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Kirundi and Xhosa. In Kirundi Alphabets there are 21 letters while in Xhosa Alphabets there are 53 letters. To learn Kirundi and Xhosa languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Kirundi and Xhosa 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 Xhosa greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Kirundi and Xhosa are Most Spoken Languages.

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

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Kirundi and Xhosa Speaking population

Kirundi and Xhosa speaking population is one of the factors based on which Kirundi and Xhosa languages can be compared. The total count of Kirundi and Xhosa Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Kirundi language is 0.13 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Xhosa language is 0.11 %. 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 Xhosa on Kirundi vs Xhosa where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Kirundi and Xhosa Language Codes

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