Countries
Burma
  
Algeria, Bahrain, Chad, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
  
National Language
Burundi, Gambia
  
Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia
  
Africa, Asia
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council
  
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.
  
- Arabic is 5th common language in world.
- Classical Arabic is the language of Quran and also it is official language. Classical Arabic is the only way to learn Arabic language in academic way and it does not change.
  
Similar To
Kinyarwanda Language
  
Amharic and Hebrew
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
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Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Arabic
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Language Levels
Not Available
  
Time Taken to Learn
Not Available
  
Hello
Bwakeye
  
مرحبا
  
Thank You
Urakoze
  
شكرا
  
How Are You?
Urakomeye?
  
كيف حالك؟
  
Good Night
Ijoro ryiza
  
تصبح على خير
  
Good Evening
Mwiriwe
  
مساء الخير
  
Good Afternoon
Mwiriwe
  
مساء الخير
  
Good Morning
Mwaramutse
  
صباح الخير
  
Please
Ndagusavye
  
من فضلك
  
Sorry
Not available
  
آسف
  
Bye
N’agasaga
  
وداعا
  
I Love You
Not available
  
أحبك
  
Excuse Me
Not available
  
اعذرني
  
Dialect 1
Rwanda-Rundi
  
Maghrebi
  
Where They Speak
Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda
  
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
  
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.00
  
10
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Ha
  
Sudanese
  
Where They Speak
Tanzania
  
Sudan
  
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.00
  
6
Dialect 3
Shubi
  
Levantine
  
Where They Speak
Tanzania
  
Cyprus, Levant
  
How Many People Speak
21,000,000.00
  
3
How Many People Speak?
8.80 million
  
99+
452.00 million
  
4
Native Speakers
8.80 million
  
99+
206.00 million
  
6
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
246.00 million
  
2
Native Name
íkiRǔndi
  
(al arabiya) العربية
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
  
French Name
rundi
  
arabe
  
German Name
Kirundi
  
Arabisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
  
Ethnicity
Hutu, Tutsi, and Twa
  
Arabs
  
Origin
1500
  
512 CE
  
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
  
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Semitic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
North Arabic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Kirundi
  
Modern Standard Arabic
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Signed Arabic
  
Scope
Not Available
  
Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
rn
  
ar
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
run
  
ara
  
ISO 639 2/B
run
  
ara
  
ISO 639 3
run
  
ara
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
rund1242
  
arab1395
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
12-AAC
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Not Available
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Kirundi and Arabic Speaking population
Kirundi and Arabic speaking population is one of the factors based on which Kirundi and Arabic languages can be compared. The total count of Kirundi and Arabic Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Kirundi language is 0.13 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Arabic language is 4.43 %. 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 Kirundi and Arabic on Kirundi vs Arabic where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Kirundi and Arabic Language Codes
Kirundi and Arabic language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Kirundi and Arabic Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.