Countries
Burma
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
Total No. Of Countries
14
0
46
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National Language
Burundi, Gambia
Russia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Afganistan
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Regulated By
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Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
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 Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
- In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.
Similar To
Kinyarwanda Language
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Derived From
-
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2133
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
510
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
1921
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Cyrillic
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
36 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Bwakeye
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
Thank You
Urakoze
спасибо(spasibo)
How Are You?
Urakomeye?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
Good Night
Ijoro ryiza
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
Good Evening
Mwiriwe
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
Good Afternoon
Mwiriwe
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
Good Morning
Mwaramutse
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
Please
Ndagusavye
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
Sorry
Ndasubiza
Извините(Izvinite)
Bye
N’agasaga
до свидания(do svidaniya)
I Love You
Ndi waramutse
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
Excuse Me
Ndasaba
извините(izvinite)
Dialect 1
Rwanda-Rundi
Doukhobor Russian
Where They Speak
Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.0030,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Ha
Olonets
Where They Speak
Tanzania
Olonets
How Many People Speak
990,000.00154,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Shubi
Novgorod
Where They Speak
Tanzania
Novgorod
How Many People Speak
153,000.00154,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
613
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
8.80 million276.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.13 %2.33 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
8.80 million166.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
12.00 million110.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
íkiRǔndi
Русский
Alternative Names
Rundi, Urundi
Russki
French Name
rundi
russe
German Name
Kirundi
Russisch
Pronunciation
[kɪˈrʊndi]
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
Ethnicity
Hutu, Tutsi, and Twa
Russians
Origin
1500
1000 AD
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Subgroup
-
Slavic
Branch
-
Eastern
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old East Slavic
Standard Forms
Kirundi
Standard Russian
Language Position
867
1
120
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Signed Forms
Kirundi Sign Language
Signed Russian
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
rn
ru
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
run
rus
ISO 639 2/B
run
rus
ISO 639 3
run
rus
ISO 639 6
run
rus
Glottocode
rund1242
russ1263
Linguasphere
No data available
53-AAA-ea
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
Fusional, Synthetic