Countries
Burma
India
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
👆🏻
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
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
-
Govenment of Goa
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.
- Fr. Thomas Stevan wrote the first book in Konkani in 1651.
- Sahitya Academy recognized konkani as a language in year 1976.
Similar To
Kinyarwanda Language
Marathi
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2152
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
516
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
1936
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Latin
Devanagari
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
63
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
36 weeks4 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Bwakeye
Namaskar
Thank You
Urakoze
Dev Borem Korum
How Are You?
Urakomeye?
kaso assa?
Good Night
Ijoro ryiza
Rati Boren Zavonn
Good Evening
Mwiriwe
Sanj Borem Zavonn
Good Afternoon
Mwiriwe
संध्याकाळ शुभेच्छा
Good Morning
Mwaramutse
Dis Borem Zavonn
Please
Ndagusavye
Chike
Sorry
Ndasubiza
Maf kor
Bye
N’agasaga
Adeus
I Love You
Ndi waramutse
hav tujo mog korta.
Excuse Me
Ndasaba
upkar korxi
Dialect 1
Rwanda-Rundi
Antruz
Where They Speak
Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda
Goa
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.002,500,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Ha
Not present
Where They Speak
Tanzania
-
How Many People Speak
990,000.002,700,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Shubi
Not present
Where They Speak
Tanzania
-
How Many People Speak
153,000.007.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
61
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
8.80 million7.40 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.13 %0.11 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
8.80 million7.40 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
12.00 million8.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
íkiRǔndi
Kōṅkaṇī
Alternative Names
Rundi, Urundi
Konkan standard, Bankoti, Kunabi, North Konkan, Central Konkan, Concorinum, Cugani, Konkanese
French Name
rundi
konkani
German Name
Kirundi
Konkani
Pronunciation
[kɪˈrʊndi]
kõkɳi
Ethnicity
Hutu, Tutsi, and Twa
Konkanis
Origin
1500
1209 A.D.
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Kirundi
Kokani
Language Position
8623
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Kirundi Sign Language
Indian Signing System (ISS)
Scope
-
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
rn
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
run
kok
ISO 639 2/B
run
kok
ISO 639 3
run
kok
ISO 639 6
run
kok
Glottocode
rund1242
goan1235
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
-