Countries
Burma
Fiji, India
Total No. Of Countries
12
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, Oceania
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
-
Central Hindi Directorate
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.
- In Hindi language, nouns are followed by post positions.
- In Hindi, there are many familiar words in English which are in Hindi or of Hindi origin.
Similar To
Kinyarwanda Language
Urdu
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2144
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
511
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
1933
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Latin
Devanagari
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
64
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
36 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Bwakeye
नमस्ते (Namastē)
Thank You
Urakoze
धन्यवाद (Dhan'yavāda)
How Are You?
Urakomeye?
तुम कैसे हो? (Tuma kaisē hō?)
Good Night
Ijoro ryiza
शुभरात्रि (Śubharātri)
Good Evening
Mwiriwe
शुभ सन्ध्या (shubh sandhya)
Good Afternoon
Mwiriwe
दोपहर के बाद नमस्कार (dopahar ke bad namaskar)
Good Morning
Mwaramutse
सुप्रभात (Suprabhāta)
Please
Ndagusavye
कृपया (Kr̥payā)
Sorry
Ndasubiza
खेद (Khēda)
Bye
N’agasaga
अलविदा (Alavidā)
I Love You
Ndi waramutse
मैं आपसे प्यार करता (Maiṁ āpasē pyāra karatā)
Excuse Me
Ndasaba
मुझे माफ करें (Mujhē māpha karēṁ)
Dialect 1
Rwanda-Rundi
Khariboli
Where They Speak
Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda
Delhi, Haryana, Western Uttar Pradesh
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.00240,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Ha
Marwari
Where They Speak
Tanzania
Gujarat, Haryana, Rajasthan, Sindh
How Many People Speak
990,000.0022,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Shubi
Bundeli
Where They Speak
Tanzania
Bundelkhand
How Many People Speak
153,000.0020,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
621
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
8.80 million380.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.13 %4.70 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
8.80 million260.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
12.00 million120.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
íkiRǔndi
हिन्दी
Alternative Names
Rundi, Urundi
Khadi Boli, Khari Boli
French Name
rundi
hindi
German Name
Kirundi
Hindi
Pronunciation
[kɪˈrʊndi]
[ˈmaːnək ˈɦin̪d̪iː]
Ethnicity
Hutu, Tutsi, and Twa
Hindustani people
Origin
1500
7th Century
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
Standard Hindi
Language Position
865
1
120
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Signed Forms
Kirundi Sign Language
Indian Signing System
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
rn
hi
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
run
hin
ISO 639 2/B
run
hin
ISO 639 3
run
hin
ISO 639 6
run
hins
Glottocode
rund1242
hind1269
Linguasphere
No data available
59-AAF-qf
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
Fusional, Synthetic