Kirundi, officially Ikirundi, is a Bantu language and the national language of Burundi. It is mutually intelligible with Kinyarwanda, the national language of Rwanda, and together the two form part of the Rwanda-Rundi dialect continuum spoken across Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, and Kenya.
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ISO 639-3 Code Speaker Count2021 estimate for native speakers, cited in the Wikipedia infobox. StatusWikipedia article on Kirundi: a currently spoken living language with an active native-speaker population; checked 2026-09-27. Classification
Language Kind Official StatusNational Language (Symbolic, Not Sole Official) 2 Connections
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Source Kirundi, Wikipedia
Source Kirundi, Wikipedia
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Kirundi is standardly written in the Latin alphabet.
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Source Kirundi, WikipediaLead paragraph of the cited Wikipedia articleQuote, Lead paragraph of the cited Wikipedia article
Kirundi (), officially known as Ikirundi (also known as Rundi), is a Bantu language and the national language of Burundi.
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1. Glottolog: Rundi (Glottolog languoid rund1242)
GlottologEndangerment, AES statusQuote, Endangerment, AES status
AES status: not endangered
2. Kirundi, Wikipedia
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is a Bantu language and the national language of Burundi.
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2021
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Kirundi (), officially known as Ikirundi (also known as Rundi), is a Bantu language and the national language of Burundi.
In Family: Atlantic-Congo, Infobox: fam2
Atlantic-Congo
In Family: Bantu, Infobox, Language family
Bantu
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