Kirundi

Kirundi
Spoken in	Burundi
speaker	6 million
Linguistic classification	Niger Congo Languages Benue Congo languages Bantoid languages Bantu languages Kirundi
Official status
Official language in	Burundi
Language codes
ISO 639 -1	rn
ISO 639 -2	run
ISO 639-3	run

Kirundi , also Rundi and Rundisch , is a Bantu language widespread in Burundi (and spoken by around 95% of the population as their mother tongue) and, alongside French, the country's official language.

The Lord's Prayer on Rundisch in the Paternoster Church of Jerusalem

At the end of the 19th century, under the German colonial rule in Rwanda-Urundi , a Latin- based script was used.

The language is almost identical to Kinyarwanda, which is mainly spoken in neighboring Rwanda .

Web links

Wikipedia on Kirundi

Wiktionary: Kirundi  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

• Online Kirundi / English dictionary, revised
• English-Kirundi dictionary, PDF
• Kirundi course, PDF
• Kirundi grammar, PDF
• Learn Kirundi (in Spanish) ( Memento from February 7, 2012 in the Internet Archive )

literature

• AE Meeussen: Essai de grammaire Rundi. In: Annales du Musée Royal du Congo Belge, Série Sciences Humaines - Linguistique. Vol. 24. Tervuren 1959.