Countries
Burma
  
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
  
National Language
Burundi, Gambia
  
Russia
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Afganistan
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  
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 Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
- In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.
  
Similar To
Kinyarwanda Language
  
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
  
Alphabets in
Kirundi-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Russian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Cyrillic
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Language Levels
Not Available
  
Time Taken to Learn
Not Available
  
Hello
Bwakeye
  
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
  
Thank You
Urakoze
  
спасибо(spasibo)
  
How Are You?
Urakomeye?
  
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
  
Good Night
Ijoro ryiza
  
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
  
Good Evening
Mwiriwe
  
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
  
Good Afternoon
Mwiriwe
  
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
  
Good Morning
Mwaramutse
  
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
  
Please
Ndagusavye
  
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
  
Sorry
Not available
  
Извините(Izvinite)
  
Bye
N’agasaga
  
до свидания(do svidaniya)
  
I Love You
Not available
  
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
  
Excuse Me
Not available
  
извините(izvinite)
  
Dialect 1
Rwanda-Rundi
  
Doukhobor Russian
  
Where They Speak
Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda
  
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
  
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.00
  
10
Dialect 2
Ha
  
Olonets
  
Where They Speak
Tanzania
  
Olonets
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Shubi
  
Novgorod
  
Where They Speak
Tanzania
  
Novgorod
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
8.80 million
  
99+
276.00 million
  
6
Native Speakers
8.80 million
  
99+
166.00 million
  
8
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
110.00 million
  
7
Native Name
íkiRǔndi
  
Русский
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Russki
  
French Name
rundi
  
russe
  
German Name
Kirundi
  
Russisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
  
Ethnicity
Hutu, Tutsi, and Twa
  
Russians
  
Origin
1500
  
1000 AD
  
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
  
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Slavic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Eastern
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Old East Slavic
  
Standard Forms
Kirundi
  
Standard Russian
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Signed Russian
  
Scope
Not Available
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
rn
  
ru
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
run
  
rus
  
ISO 639 2/B
run
  
rus
  
ISO 639 3
run
  
rus
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
rund1242
  
russ1263
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
53-AAA-ea
  
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 Russian 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 Russian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Kirundi and Russian language. Kirundi word for "Hello" is Bwakeye or Russian word for "Thank You" is спасибо(spasibo). Find more of such common Kirundi Greetings and Russian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Kirundi vs Russian Difficulty
The Kirundi vs Russian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Kirundi Alphabets and Russian 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 Russian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Kirundi and Russian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Kirundi is Not Available while to learn Russian time required is 44 weeks.