Countries
Burma
  
Fiji, India
  
National Language
Burundi, Gambia
  
India
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia
  
Asia, Oceania
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Central Hindi Directorate
  
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.
  
- In Hindi language, nouns are followed by post positions.
- In Hindi, there are many familiar words in English which are in Hindi or of Hindi origin.
  
Similar To
Kinyarwanda Language
  
Urdu
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
Kirundi-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
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Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Devanagari
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Language Levels
Not Available
  
Time Taken to Learn
Not Available
  
Hello
Bwakeye
  
नमस्ते (Namastē)
  
Thank You
Urakoze
  
धन्यवाद (Dhan'yavāda)
  
How Are You?
Urakomeye?
  
तुम कैसे हो? (Tuma kaisē hō?)
  
Good Night
Ijoro ryiza
  
शुभरात्रि (Śubharātri)
  
Good Evening
Mwiriwe
  
शुभ सन्ध्या (shubh sandhya)
  
Good Afternoon
Mwiriwe
  
दोपहर के बाद नमस्कार (dopahar ke bad namaskar)
  
Good Morning
Mwaramutse
  
सुप्रभात (Suprabhāta)
  
Please
Ndagusavye
  
कृपया (Kr̥payā)
  
Sorry
Not available
  
खेद (Khēda)
  
Bye
N’agasaga
  
अलविदा (Alavidā)
  
I Love You
Not available
  
मैं आपसे प्यार करता (Maiṁ āpasē pyāra karatā)
  
Excuse Me
Not available
  
मुझे माफ करें (Mujhē māpha karēṁ)
  
Dialect 1
Rwanda-Rundi
  
Khariboli
  
Where They Speak
Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda
  
Delhi, Haryana, Western Uttar Pradesh
  
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.00
  
10
240,000,000.00
  
2
Dialect 2
Ha
  
Marwari
  
Where They Speak
Tanzania
  
Gujarat, Haryana, Rajasthan, Sindh
  
How Many People Speak
22,000,000.00
  
3
Dialect 3
Shubi
  
Bundeli
  
Where They Speak
Tanzania
  
Bundelkhand
  
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.00
  
4
How Many People Speak?
8.80 million
  
99+
380.00 million
  
5
Native Speakers
8.80 million
  
99+
260.00 million
  
4
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
120.00 million
  
6
Native Name
íkiRǔndi
  
हिन्दी
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Khadi Boli, Khari Boli
  
French Name
rundi
  
hindi
  
German Name
Kirundi
  
Hindi
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[ˈmaːnək ˈɦin̪d̪iː]
  
Ethnicity
Hutu, Tutsi, and Twa
  
Hindustani people
  
Origin
1500
  
7th Century
  
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Indic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Kirundi
  
Standard Hindi
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Indian Signing System
  
Scope
Not Available
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
rn
  
hi
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
run
  
hin
  
ISO 639 2/B
run
  
hin
  
ISO 639 3
run
  
hin
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
hins
  
Glottocode
rund1242
  
hind1269
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
59-AAF-qf
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Not Available
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Kirundi and Hindi Speaking population
Kirundi and Hindi speaking population is one of the factors based on which Kirundi and Hindi languages can be compared. The total count of Kirundi and Hindi Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Kirundi language is 0.13 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Hindi language is 4.70 %. 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 Hindi on Kirundi vs Hindi where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Kirundi and Hindi Language Codes
Kirundi and Hindi language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Kirundi and Hindi Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.