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About Kirundi Language



Countries
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Countries
Burma 0

Total No. Of Countries
1 14

National Language
Burundi, Gambia 0

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries 0

Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia 0

Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries 0

Regulated By
Not Available 0

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.
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Similar To
Kinyarwanda Language 0

Derived From
Not Available 0

Alphabets
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Alphabets in
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Alphabets
21 3

Phonology
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How Many Vowels
5 2

How Many Consonants
19 9

Scripts
Latin 0

Writing Direction
Not Available 0

Hard to Learn
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Language Levels
Not Available 0

Time Taken to Learn
Not Available 0

Greetings
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Hello
Bwakeye 0

Thank You
Urakoze 0

How Are You?
Urakomeye? 0

Good Night
Ijoro ryiza 0

Good Evening
Mwiriwe 0

Good Afternoon
Mwiriwe 0

Good Morning
Mwaramutse 0

Please
Ndagusavye 0

Sorry
Not available 0

Bye
N’agasaga 0

I Love You
Not available 0

Excuse Me
Not available 0

Dialects
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Dialect 1
Rwanda-Rundi 0

Where They Speak
Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda 0

How Many People Speak
20,000,000.00 10

Dialect 2
Ha 0

Where They Speak
Tanzania 0

How Many People Speak
990,000.00 25

Dialect 3
Shubi 0

Where They Speak
Tanzania 0

How Many People Speak
153,000.00 24

Total No. Of Dialects
6 6

How Many People Speak
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How Many People Speak?
8.80 million 59

Speaking Population
0.13 % 51

Native Speakers
8.80 million 49

Second Language Speakers
Not Available 0

Native Name
íkiRǔndi 0

Alternative Names
Not Available 0

French Name
rundi 0

German Name
Kirundi 0

Pronunciation
Not Available 0

Ethnicity
Hutu, Tutsi, and Twa 0

History
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Origin
1500 0

Language Family
Niger-Congo Family 0

Subgroup
Not Available 0

Branch
Not Available 0

Language Forms
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Early Forms
No early forms 0

Standard Forms
Kirundi 0

Language Position
86 57

Signed Forms
Not Available 0

Scope
Not Available 0

Code
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ISO 639 1
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ISO 639 2
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ISO 639 2/T
run 0

ISO 639 2/B
run 0

ISO 639 3
run 0

ISO 639 6
Not Available 0

Glottocode
rund1242 0

Linguasphere
No data available 0

Types of Language
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Language Type
Not Available 0

Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available 0

Language Morphological Typology
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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.

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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.

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