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Kirundi
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1 Countries

1.1 Countries

Burma

1.2 Total No. Of Countries

1
Rank: 14 (Overall)
About Bhojpuri Language
0 46

1.3 National Language

Burundi, Gambia

1.4 Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries

1.5 Speaking Continents

Africa, Asia

1.6 Minority Language

Not spoken in any of the countries

1.7 Regulated By

Not Available

1.8 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.

1.9 Similar To

Kinyarwanda Language

1.10 Derived From

Not Available

2 Alphabets

2.1 Alphabets in

2.2 Alphabets

21
Rank: 3 (Overall)
About Irish Language
18 247

2.3 Phonology

2.3.1 How Many Vowels

5
Rank: 2 (Overall)
About Hebrew Language
0 32

2.3.2 How Many Consonants

19
Rank: 9 (Overall)
About German Language
9 60

2.4 Scripts

Latin

2.5 Writing Direction

Not Available

2.6 Hard to Learn

2.6.1 Language Levels

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
About Bengali Language
2 12

2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
About Cebuano Language
3 88

3 Greetings

3.1 Hello

Bwakeye

3.2 Thank You

Urakoze

3.3 How Are You?

Urakomeye?

3.4 Good Night

Ijoro ryiza

3.5 Good Evening

Mwiriwe

3.6 Good Afternoon

Mwiriwe

3.7 Good Morning

Mwaramutse

3.8 Please

Ndagusavye

3.9 Sorry

Not available

3.10 Bye

N’agasaga

3.11 I Love You

Not available

3.12 Excuse Me

Not available

4 Dialects

4.1 Dialect 1

Rwanda-Rundi

4.1.1 Where They Speak

Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda

4.1.2 How Many People Speak

20,000,000.00
Rank: 10 (Overall)
About Macedonian Language
1.5 960000000

4.2 Dialect 2

Ha

4.2.1 Where They Speak

Tanzania

4.2.2 How Many People Speak

990,000.00
Rank: 25 (Overall)
About Dzongkha Language
700 80000000

4.3 Dialect 3

Shubi

4.3.1 Where They Speak

Tanzania

4.3.2 How Many People Speak

153,000.00
Rank: 24 (Overall)
About Romanian Language
1400 96000000

4.4 Total No. Of Dialects

6
Rank: 6 (Overall)
About Sanskrit Language
0 188

5 How Many People Speak

5.1 How Many People Speak?

8.80 million
Rank: 59 (Overall)
About Abkhaz Language
0.13 1200

5.2 Speaking Population

0.13 %
Rank: 51 (Overall)
About Xhosa Language
0.11 89

5.3 Native Speakers

8.80 million
Rank: 49 (Overall)
About Abkhaz Language
0.13 873

5.3.1 Second Language Speakers

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
About Finnish Language
0.01 400

5.3.2 Native Name

íkiRǔndi

5.3.3 Alternative Names

Not Available

5.3.4 French Name

rundi

5.3.5 German Name

Kirundi

5.4 Pronunciation

Not Available

5.5 Ethnicity

Hutu, Tutsi, and Twa

6 History

6.1 Origin

1500

6.2 Language Family

Niger-Congo Family

6.2.1 Subgroup

Not Available

6.2.2 Branch

Not Available

6.3 Language Forms

6.3.1 Early Forms

No early forms

6.3.2 Standard Forms

Kirundi

6.3.3 Language Position

86
Rank: 57 (Overall)
About Chinese Language
1 120

6.3.4 Signed Forms

Not Available

6.4 Scope

Not Available

7 Code

7.1 ISO 639 1

rn

7.2 ISO 639 2

7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T

run

7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B

run

7.3 ISO 639 3

run

7.4 ISO 639 6

Not Available

7.5 Glottocode

rund1242

7.6 Linguasphere

No data available

7.7 Types of Language

7.7.1 Language Type

Not Available

7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology

Not Available

7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology

Not Available

Know Alphabets in Kirundi

When you start learning to write in any language the Alphabets form a skeleton of any language. Let's talk About Kirundi Language, where you will learn the number of letter in Kirundi Alphabets. Every language has its own set of alphabets or characters so it is necessary to know alphabets in Kirundi. Kirundi phonology gives Kirundi vowels and Kirundi consonants. There are 5 vowels and 19 consonants in Kirundi language. Based upon the number of alphabet, vowels and consonants in the language we can check if Kirundi is one of the Most Difficult Languages. All about Kirundi language is given in detail in this section.

All Kirundi countries

Want to explore all Kirundi countries? About Kirundi language serves you with all Kirundi Speaking Countries. Countries that use Kirundi as official language are called as Kirundi countries.

  • Countries that use Kirundi as their National Language are: Burundi, Gambia.

Second language indicates to any language which the person learns in addition to first or native language.

  • Countries that use Kirundi as second language are: Kirundi is not spoken as second language in any of the countries.

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Learn Kirundi greetings

Languages are used by every human being to communicate. And communication begins with the greetings. First step to form any interaction is to learn Kirundi Greetings. Whenever you are travelling to new country where in you don’t know the local language of that country then you should at least be familiar with some greetings to start any formal or informal conversion. When we talk about Kirundi language, we are always interested in learning useful phrases in Kirundi language.Learn Kirundi greetings that can be used in formal situations:

  • Hello: Bwakeye
  • Thank you: Urakoze
  • Good Morning: Mwaramutse
  • Good Evening: Mwiriwe
  • Good Afternoon: Mwiriwe

All Kirundi Language Codes

Get to know all Kirundi language codes here. There are several languages spoken all over the world where in most of the languages have alternate names which come from diverse sources. All Kirundi Language Codes are assigned with unique code. There is usually two or three letters code for each language. In most of the applications, these language codes are used where it is tedious to use language names.