Countries
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
  
Burma
  
National Language
Germany
  
Burundi, Gambia
  
Second Language
North Dakota, United States of America
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Africa, Asia
  
Minority Language
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Council for German Orthography
  
Not Available
  
Interesting Facts
- One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
- The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.
  
- 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
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
  
Kinyarwanda Language
  
Derived From
Albanian Languages
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
German-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Kirundi-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
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
hallo
  
Bwakeye
  
Thank You
Danke
  
Urakoze
  
How Are You?
Wie geht es dir?
  
Urakomeye?
  
Good Night
gute Nacht
  
Ijoro ryiza
  
Good Evening
guten Abend
  
Mwiriwe
  
Good Afternoon
guten Tag
  
Mwiriwe
  
Good Morning
guten Morgen
  
Mwaramutse
  
Please
bitte
  
Ndagusavye
  
Sorry
Verzeihung
  
Not available
  
Bye
Tschüs
  
N’agasaga
  
I Love You
Ich liebe dich
  
Not available
  
Excuse Me
Entschuldigung
  
Not available
  
Dialect 1
Swiss German
  
Rwanda-Rundi
  
Where They Speak
Switzerland
  
Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda
  
How Many People Speak
4,500,000.00
  
18
20,000,000.00
  
10
Dialect 2
Swabian German
  
Ha
  
Where They Speak
Germany
  
Tanzania
  
Dialect 3
Texas German
  
Shubi
  
Where They Speak
Texas
  
Tanzania
  
How Many People Speak?
229.00 million
  
8
8.80 million
  
99+
Native Speakers
101.00 million
  
10
8.80 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
128.00 million
  
5
Not Available
  
Native Name
Deutsch
  
íkiRǔndi
  
Alternative Names
Deutsch, Tedesco
  
Not Available
  
French Name
allemand
  
rundi
  
German Name
Deutsch
  
Kirundi
  
Pronunciation
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Germans
  
Hutu, Tutsi, and Twa
  
Origin
6th Century AD
  
1500
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Niger-Congo Family
  
Subgroup
Germanic
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Western
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
  
Kirundi
  
Signed Forms
Signed German
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Not Available
  
ISO 639 1
de
  
rn
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
deu
  
run
  
ISO 639 2/B
ger
  
run
  
ISO 639 3
deu
  
run
  
ISO 639 6
deus
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
high1287, uppe1397
  
rund1242
  
Linguasphere
52-ACB–dl & -dm
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Not Available
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Not Available
  
German and Kirundi Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where German and Kirundi greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in German and Kirundi language. German word for "Hello" is hallo or Kirundi word for "Thank You" is Urakoze. Find more of such common German Greetings and Kirundi Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
German vs Kirundi Difficulty
The German vs Kirundi difficulty level basically depends on the number of German Alphabets and Kirundi Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare German and Kirundi are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in German and Kirundi, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn German is 30 weeks while to learn Kirundi time required is Not Available.