Countries
Burma
  
India, Nepal
  
National Language
Burundi, Gambia
  
Nepal
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Republic of Brazil
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
People's Republic of China
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Language Academy of Nepal
  
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.
  
- Before the term "Nepali" was coined, historically the language was first called the Khas language, Gorkhali or Gukhali.
- Nepali has borrowed many loanwords from neighboring Tibeto-Burmese languages.
  
Similar To
Kinyarwanda Language
  
Hindi
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
Kirundi-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Nepali-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
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 (namaste)
  
Thank You
Urakoze
  
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
  
How Are You?
Urakomeye?
  
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
  
Good Night
Ijoro ryiza
  
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
  
Good Evening
Mwiriwe
  
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
  
Good Afternoon
Mwiriwe
  
Good afternoon
  
Good Morning
Mwaramutse
  
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
  
Please
Ndagusavye
  
कृपया
  
Sorry
Not available
  
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
  
Bye
N’agasaga
  
नमस्ते (namaste)
  
I Love You
Not available
  
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
  
Excuse Me
Not available
  
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
  
Dialect 1
Rwanda-Rundi
  
Doteli
  
Where They Speak
Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda
  
Nepal
  
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.00
  
10
Dialect 2
Ha
  
Bajhangi
  
Where They Speak
Tanzania
  
India, Nepal
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Shubi
  
Baitadeli
  
Where They Speak
Tanzania
  
Nepal
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
8.80 million
  
99+
30.00 million
  
36
Native Speakers
8.80 million
  
99+
25.00 million
  
32
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
5.00 million
  
29
Native Name
íkiRǔndi
  
नेपाली (nēpālī)
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
  
French Name
rundi
  
népalais
  
German Name
Kirundi
  
Nepali
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Hutu, Tutsi, and Twa
  
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
  
Origin
1500
  
19 BC
  
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Indic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
  
Standard Forms
Kirundi
  
Nepali
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Signed Nepali
  
Scope
Not Available
  
Individual, Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
rn
  
ne
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
run
  
nep
  
ISO 639 2/B
run
  
nep
  
ISO 639 3
run
  
npi
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
rund1242
  
nepa1254
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
12
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Not Available
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Agglutinative
  
Kirundi and Nepali 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 Kirundi and Nepali greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Kirundi and Nepali language. Kirundi word for "Hello" is Bwakeye or Nepali word for "Thank You" is धन्यवाद (dhanyabad). Find more of such common Kirundi Greetings and Nepali Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Kirundi vs Nepali Difficulty
The Kirundi vs Nepali difficulty level basically depends on the number of Kirundi Alphabets and Nepali 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 Kirundi and Nepali are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Kirundi and Nepali, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Kirundi is Not Available while to learn Nepali time required is 44 weeks.