Countries
Burma
  
European Union, Finland
  
National Language
Burundi, Gambia
  
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Estonia
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Institute for the Languages of Finland
  
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.
  
- Finnish language has adopted many words from Iranian, Turkic, Baltic, Germanic and Slavic languages.
- In Finnish language, there are no articles or grammatical gender.
  
Similar To
Kinyarwanda Language
  
Estonian and Livonian Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Kirundi-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Finnish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Language Levels
Not Available
  
Time Taken to Learn
Not Available
  
Hello
Bwakeye
  
Moi
  
Thank You
Urakoze
  
Kiitos
  
How Are You?
Urakomeye?
  
Mitä kuuluu?
  
Good Night
Ijoro ryiza
  
hyvää yötä
  
Good Evening
Mwiriwe
  
Hyvää iltaa
  
Good Afternoon
Mwiriwe
  
Hyvää iltapäivää
  
Good Morning
Mwaramutse
  
Hyvää huomenta
  
Please
Ndagusavye
  
haluta
  
Sorry
Not available
  
Anteeksi
  
Bye
N’agasaga
  
Heippa
  
I Love You
Not available
  
Minä rakastan sinua
  
Excuse Me
Not available
  
Anteeksi
  
Dialect 1
Rwanda-Rundi
  
Colloquial Finnish
  
Where They Speak
Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda
  
Finland
  
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.00
  
10
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Ha
  
Rauma
  
Where They Speak
Tanzania
  
Finland, Rauma
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Shubi
  
Meänkieli
  
Where They Speak
Tanzania
  
Finland, Sweden
  
How Many People Speak?
8.80 million
  
99+
5.40 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
8.80 million
  
99+
5.40 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
0.01 million
  
39
Native Name
íkiRǔndi
  
suomi / suomen kieli
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Suomi
  
French Name
rundi
  
finnois
  
German Name
Kirundi
  
Finnisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[ˈsuomi]
  
Ethnicity
Hutu, Tutsi, and Twa
  
ethnic Finns
  
Origin
1500
  
1543
  
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
  
Uralic Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Finno-Ugric
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Finnic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Proto-Finnic language
  
Standard Forms
Kirundi
  
standard Finnish
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Signed Finnish
  
Scope
Not Available
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
rn
  
fi
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
run
  
fin
  
ISO 639 2/B
run
  
fin
  
ISO 639 3
run
  
fin
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
rund1242
  
finn1318
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Not Available
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Agglutinative, Synthetic
  
Kirundi and Finnish Speaking population
Kirundi and Finnish speaking population is one of the factors based on which Kirundi and Finnish languages can be compared. The total count of Kirundi and Finnish Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Kirundi language is 0.13 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Finnish language is Not Available. 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 Finnish on Kirundi vs Finnish where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Kirundi and Finnish Language Codes
Kirundi and Finnish language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Kirundi and Finnish Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.