Countries
Burma
Norway
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Burundi, Gambia
Norway
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia
Europe, South America
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Nynorsk
Regulated By
-
Norwegian Language Council
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.
- Bergen is one of the Norwegian dialect which has only two genders: common and neuter.
- Since Norwegian language uses pitch accents, it has musical quality and are sometimes employed to distinguish the meanings of homonyms.
Similar To
Kinyarwanda Language
Swedish and Danish Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2129
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
59
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
1920
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
64
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
36 weeks24 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Bwakeye
hallo
Thank You
Urakoze
takk
How Are You?
Urakomeye?
hvordan har du det?
Good Night
Ijoro ryiza
god natt
Good Evening
Mwiriwe
god kveld
Good Afternoon
Mwiriwe
god ettermiddag
Good Morning
Mwaramutse
god morgen
Please
Ndagusavye
Vær så snill
Sorry
Ndasubiza
unnskyld
Bye
N’agasaga
ha det
I Love You
Ndi waramutse
Jeg Elsker Deg
Excuse Me
Ndasaba
unnskyld meg
Dialect 1
Rwanda-Rundi
Jamtlandic
Where They Speak
Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda
Jamtland,Harjedalen
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.0030,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Ha
Sognamål
Where They Speak
Tanzania
Sogn
How Many People Speak
990,000.005,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Shubi
Hallingmål-Valdris
Where They Speak
Tanzania
Hallingdal, Valdres
How Many People Speak
153,000.005,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
619
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
8.80 million5.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.13 %0.07 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
8.80 million5.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
12.00 million5.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
íkiRǔndi
Norsk
Alternative Names
Rundi, Urundi
Norsk
French Name
rundi
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
German Name
Kirundi
Nynorsk
Pronunciation
[kɪˈrʊndi]
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
Ethnicity
Hutu, Tutsi, and Twa
Norwegians
Origin
1500
c. 1300 AD
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Germanic
Branch
-
Northern (Scandinavian)
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
Standard Forms
Kirundi
Nynorsk, Bokmål
Language Position
8618
1
120
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Signed Forms
Kirundi Sign Language
Signed Norwegian
Scope
-
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
rn
no
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
run
nor
ISO 639 2/B
run
nor
ISO 639 3
run
nor
ISO 639 6
run
nor
Glottocode
rund1242
norw1258
Linguasphere
No data available
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
Fusional