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| '''Rundi''' (commonly seen in its native form, '''''Kirundi''''') is a dialect of the Rwanda-Rundi language spoken by some 8.7 million people in [[Burundi]] and adjacent parts of [[Tanzania]] and [[Congo-Kinshasa]], as well as in [[Uganda]]. It is the [[official language]] of Burundi. (The ''[[Kinyarwanda]]'' dialect is the official language of neighboring [[Rwanda]].) | | ''See [[Kirundi]]'' |
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| The inhabitants of Rwanda and Burundi belong to several different [[ethnic group]]s: [[Hutu]] (84%), [[Tutsi]], including [[Hima]] (15%), and [[Twa]] (1%) (a [[pygmy]] people). The fact that these ethnic groups share the same language is assumed to be the result of the Hutu outnumbering the latter two groups (see [[Hutu]] for a more complete historical perspective).
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| Neighboring dialects of Rundi are [[mutually intelligible]] with [[Ha language|Ha]], a language spoken in western [[Tanzania]].
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| Rundi is frequently cited as a language where [[Meeussen's rule]], a rule describing a certain pattern of tonal change in Bantu languages, is active.
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| !colspan="2"|Example translations
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| | Ego || Yes
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| | Oya || No
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| | Uravuga icongereza? || Do you speak English?
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| | Bite? || What's Up?
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| | Mwaramutse || Hi/Good Morning
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| | Ikirundi n'ikinyarwanda bisa nk'igi czek n'igi slovak|| Rundi and Rwanda are closely related like Czech and Slovak
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| | Amata || Milk
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| | Ejo || Yesterday
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| | Eejo° || Tomorrow
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| | Nzoza ejo/Nzoz'ejo || I will come tomorrow
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| | Ubu || Now
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| | Faransa/Ubufaransa || France
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| | Ngereza/Ubwongereza || England
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| | Leta zunz'ubumwe z'amerika || United States of America
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| | Ubudagi || Germany
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| | Ububirigi || Belgium
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| |-Uburaya Europe
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| |colspan="2"|°N.B. ''eejo'' is pronounced the same as ''ejo'':<br>the other ''e'' is written for differentiation.
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| == References ==
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| * Meeussen, A.E. (1959) ''Essai de grammaire Rundi'' Annales du Musée Royal du Congo Belge, Série Sciences Humaines - Linguistique, vol. 24. Tervuren
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| == External links ==
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| *[http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=run Ethnologue on Rundi]
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| *[http://marston.freemethodistchurch.org/Dictionaries/Hi-Res/english-kirundi%20dictionary.pdf Free English-Kirundi Dictionary]
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| *[http://marston.freemethodistchurch.org/Dictionaries/Hi-Res/kirundi-english%20dictionary.pdf Free Kirundi-English Dictionary]
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| *[http://www.panafril10n.org/wikidoc/pmwiki.php/PanAfrLoc/RwandaRundi PanAfrican L10n page on Kirundi...]
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| *[http://cecilia.ls.fi.upm.es/~jmartinez/wiki/index.php/Learning_Kirundi Learning Kirundi] (in Spanish)
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| *[http://amajambo.ijuru.com Online Kirundi/English dictionary]
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| [[Category:Languages of Burundi]]
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| [[Category:Languages of the Democratic Republic of the Congo]]
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| [[Category:Languages of Tanzania]]
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| [[Category:Languages of Uganda]]
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| [[Category:Northeast Bantu languages]]
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