Countries
Belgium, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Canada, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Cote d'Ivoire, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, France, Gabon, Guernesey, Guinea, Haiti, Italy, Jersey, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritius, Monaco, Niger, Rwanda, Senegal, Seychelles, Switzerland, Togo, Vanuatu
  
Burma
  
National Language
France
  
Burundi, Gambia
  
Second Language
Africa, Canada
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, Pacific, South America
  
Africa, Asia
  
Minority Language
Brazil, Cambodia, United States of America, Vietnam
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Académie française (French Academy), Office québécois de la langue française
  
Not Available
  
Interesting Facts
- French is the only language, with English, that is taught in every country of the world.
- French is the top language in Culinary Scene.
  
- 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
Italian Language
  
Kinyarwanda Language
  
Derived From
Latin
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
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Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Language Levels
Not Available
  
Time Taken to Learn
Not Available
  
Hello
bonjour
  
Bwakeye
  
Thank You
Merci
  
Urakoze
  
How Are You?
Comment allez-vous?
  
Urakomeye?
  
Good Night
bonne Nuit
  
Ijoro ryiza
  
Good Evening
bonsoir
  
Mwiriwe
  
Good Afternoon
bon Après-Midi
  
Mwiriwe
  
Good Morning
Bonjour
  
Mwaramutse
  
Please
S'il vous plaît
  
Ndagusavye
  
Sorry
désolé
  
Not available
  
Bye
au revoir
  
N’agasaga
  
I Love You
Je t'aime
  
Not available
  
Excuse Me
Excuse Moi
  
Not available
  
Dialect 1
Quebec French
  
Rwanda-Rundi
  
Where They Speak
New Brunswick, New England, Ontario, Quebec, Western Canada
  
Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda
  
How Many People Speak
6,200,000.00
  
15
20,000,000.00
  
10
Dialect 2
African French
  
Ha
  
Where They Speak
Africa
  
Tanzania
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Swiss French
  
Shubi
  
Where They Speak
Northeast France, Switzerland
  
Tanzania
  
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00
  
16
How Many People Speak?
163.00 million
  
11
8.80 million
  
99+
Native Speakers
76.00 million
  
13
8.80 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
87.00 million
  
11
Not Available
  
Native Name
français
  
íkiRǔndi
  
Alternative Names
Français
  
Not Available
  
French Name
français
  
rundi
  
German Name
Französisch
  
Kirundi
  
Pronunciation
[fʁɑ̃sɛ]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Hutu, Tutsi, and Twa
  
Origin
9th Century
  
1500
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Niger-Congo Family
  
Subgroup
Romance
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old French, Middle French and French
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Standard French
  
Kirundi
  
Signed Forms
le Français Signé (Signed French, France)
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Not Available
  
ISO 639 1
fr
  
rn
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
fra
  
run
  
ISO 639 2/B
fre
  
run
  
ISO 639 3
fra
  
run
  
ISO 639 6
fras
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
stan1290
  
rund1242
  
Linguasphere
51-AAA-i
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Not Available
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Not Available
  
French and Kirundi Speaking population
French and Kirundi speaking population is one of the factors based on which French and Kirundi languages can be compared. The total count of French and Kirundi Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking French language is 1.12 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Kirundi language is 0.13 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak French and Kirundi on French vs Kirundi where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
French and Kirundi Language Codes
French and Kirundi language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. French and Kirundi Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.