Countries
India
Burma
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
India
Burundi, Gambia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa, Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
-
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Interesting Facts
- Sanskrit language has highest number of vocabularies than any other language.
- Sanskrit Language has proved to help in speech therapy, also it increases concentration and helps to learn maths and science better.
- 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.
Similar To
Old German Language
Kinyarwanda Language
Derived From
Prakrit Language
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
5221
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
165
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3619
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Hard to Learn
Language Levels
36
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
20 weeks36 weeks
3
88
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Hello
नमस्कारः (namaskāraḥ)
Bwakeye
Thank You
धन्यवादाः (dhanyawādāh)
Urakoze
How Are You?
कथमस्ति भवान् (kathamasti bhawān)
Urakomeye?
Good Night
शुभरात्री (shubharātrī)
Ijoro ryiza
Good Evening
शुभः सायंकालः
Mwiriwe
Good Afternoon
शुभ दुपार
Mwiriwe
Good Morning
सुप्रभातम् (suprabhātam)
Mwaramutse
Please
कृपया (kripayā)
Ndagusavye
Sorry
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
Ndasubiza
Bye
पुनः मिलामः(punah milamah)
N’agasaga
I Love You
त्वामनुरजामि (twāmanurajāmi)
Ndi waramutse
Excuse Me
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
Ndasaba
Dialect 1
Not present
Rwanda-Rundi
Where They Speak
-
Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda
How Many People Speak
140,000.0020,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Not present
Ha
Where They Speak
-
Tanzania
How Many People Speak
140,000.00990,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Not present
Shubi
Where They Speak
-
Tanzania
How Many People Speak
140,000.00153,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
06
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
14.10 million8.80 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.01 %0.13 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
14.10 million8.80 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
-12.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam)
íkiRǔndi
Alternative Names
Saṃskṛtam, Sanskritam
Rundi, Urundi
French Name
sanskrit
rundi
German Name
Sanskrit
Kirundi
Pronunciation
[səmskr̩t̪əm]
[kɪˈrʊndi]
Ethnicity
Sanskrit speakers
Hutu, Tutsi, and Twa
Origin
2000 B.C.
1500
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
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Branch
Indic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Vedic Sanskrit
No early forms
Standard Forms
Sanskrit
Kirundi
Language Position
2386
1
120
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Signed Forms
-
Kirundi Sign Language
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
sa
rn
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
san
run
ISO 639 2/B
san
run
ISO 639 3
san
run
ISO 639 6
san
run
Glottocode
sans1269
rund1242
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Ancient
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Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
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Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
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