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Kirundi
Kirundi

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Countries

Countries

Burma
Benin, Nigeria

Total No. Of Countries

12
0 46
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National Language

Burundi, Gambia
Nigeria

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Africa, Asia
Africa

Minority Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Africa, Brazil, Togo, United Kingdom, United States of America

Regulated By

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Yoruba Academy

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.
  • One of the largest African ethnic groups is Yoruba in south of Sahara Desert.
  • In Yoruba language, same combination of vowels and consonants have different meanings depending on the pitch of the vowels, so it is tonal language.

Similar To

Kinyarwanda Language
Owo and Itsekiri languages

Derived From

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-

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2129
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

512
0 32
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How Many Consonants

1917
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Latin

Writing Direction

-
-

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

63
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

36 weeks30 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Bwakeye
Ẹ n lẹ

Thank You

Urakoze
e dupe

How Are You?

Urakomeye?
Bawo ni o se wa

Good Night

Ijoro ryiza
Kasun layọ o

Good Evening

Mwiriwe
ka a ale

Good Afternoon

Mwiriwe
e kaasan

Good Morning

Mwaramutse
e kaaro

Please

Ndagusavye
Jowo

Sorry

Ndasubiza
binu

Bye

N’agasaga
bye

I Love You

Ndi waramutse
mo nifẹ rẹ

Excuse Me

Ndasaba
mo tọrọ gafara

Dialects

Dialect 1

Rwanda-Rundi
Itsekiri

Where They Speak

Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda
Nigeria

How Many People Speak

20,000,000.00500,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Ha
Ede

Where They Speak

Tanzania
Benin, Togo

How Many People Speak

990,000.00800,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Shubi
Ulukwumi

Where They Speak

Tanzania
Nigeria

How Many People Speak

153,000.0010,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

620
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

8.80 million30.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.13 %0.42 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

8.80 million28.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

12.00 million30.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

íkiRǔndi
Yorùbá

Alternative Names

Rundi, Urundi
Yariba, Yooba

French Name

rundi
yoruba

German Name

Kirundi
Yoruba-Sprache

Pronunciation

[kɪˈrʊndi]
[jòɾùbá]

Ethnicity

Hutu, Tutsi, and Twa
Yoruba people

History

Origin

1500
4 BC

Language Family

Niger-Congo Family
Niger-Congo Family

Subgroup

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Western Sudanic

Branch

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Kwa

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
No early forms

Standard Forms

Kirundi
Yorùbá

Language Position

8649
1 120
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Signed Forms

Kirundi Sign Language
Yoruba Sign Language

Scope

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Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

rn
yo

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

run
yor

ISO 639 2/B

run
yor

ISO 639 3

run
yor

ISO 639 6

run
yor

Glottocode

rund1242
yoru1245

Linguasphere

No data available
No data available

Types of Language

Language Type

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Living

Language Linguistic Typology

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Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

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Analytic, Isolating

Kirundi and Yoruba Alphabets

Kirundi and Yoruba Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Kirundi and Yoruba. In Kirundi Alphabets there are 21 letters while in Yoruba Alphabets there are 29 letters. To learn Kirundi and Yoruba languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Kirundi and Yoruba 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 Yoruba greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Kirundi and Yoruba are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Kirundi and Yoruba Speaking population

Kirundi and Yoruba speaking population is one of the factors based on which Kirundi and Yoruba languages can be compared. The total count of Kirundi and Yoruba Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Kirundi language is 0.13 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Yoruba language is 0.42 %. 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 Yoruba on Kirundi vs Yoruba where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Kirundi and Yoruba Language Codes

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