Countries
Burma
Indonesia
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Burundi, Gambia
Indonesia
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
Malaysia, Netherlands, Singapore, Suriname
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.
- The Javanese group is the largest ethnic group in Indonesian.
- The earliest writing in Javanese dates from the 4th Century AD, at that time Javanese was written with the Pallava alphabet.
Similar To
Kinyarwanda Language
Madurese, Sundanese and Balinese Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2127
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
56
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
1921
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Latin
Arabic, Javanese, Latin
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
64
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
36 weeks36 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Bwakeye
Halo
Thank You
Urakoze
matur nuwun
How Are You?
Urakomeye?
piye kabare?
Good Night
Ijoro ryiza
wengi sing apik
Good Evening
Mwiriwe
Sugeng sọnten
Good Afternoon
Mwiriwe
Sugeng siang
Good Morning
Mwaramutse
Sugeng énjing
Please
Ndagusavye
matur nuwun
Sorry
Ndasubiza
Nyuwun pangapunten
Bye
N’agasaga
Kepanggih malih benjang
I Love You
Ndi waramutse
Kula tresna panjengan
Excuse Me
Ndasaba
Nuwun séwu
Dialect 1
Rwanda-Rundi
Pekalongan
Where They Speak
Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.0082,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Ha
Cirebon
Where They Speak
Tanzania
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
990,000.0082,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Shubi
Arekan
Where They Speak
Tanzania
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
153,000.0082,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
616
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
8.80 million82.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.13 %1.25 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
8.80 million76.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
12.00 million82.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
íkiRǔndi
basa Jawa
Alternative Names
Rundi, Urundi
Djawa, Jawa
French Name
rundi
javanais
German Name
Kirundi
Javanisch
Pronunciation
[kɪˈrʊndi]
[dʒɑˈʋɑnɛs]
Ethnicity
Hutu, Tutsi, and Twa
Javanese (Mataram, Osing, Tenggerese, Boyanese, Samin, Cirebonese, Banyumasan, etc)
Origin
1500
450 AD
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Austronesian Family
Subgroup
-
Indonesian
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Kirundi
Javanese
Language Position
8611
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Kirundi Sign Language
Javanese Sign Language
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
rn
jv
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
run
jav
ISO 639 2/B
run
jav
ISO 639 3
run
jav
ISO 639 6
run
jav
Glottocode
rund1242
java1253
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
Agglutinative