Kinyarwanda | |
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Rwandan | |
Ikinyarwanda | |
Native to | Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda, DR Congo, Tanzania |
Ethnicity | Banyarwanda |
Native speakers | 15 million (2014–2022)[1] |
Dialects |
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Latin | |
Official status | |
Official language in | Rwanda |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-1 | rw |
ISO 639-2 | kin |
ISO 639-3 | kin |
Glottolog | kiny1244 |
JD.61 [2] | |
Linguasphere | 99-AUS-df |
Person | Umunyarwanda |
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People | Abanyarwanda |
Language | Ikinyarwanda |
Kinyarwanda,[3] Rwandan or Rwanda, officially known as Ikinyarwanda,[4] is a Bantu language and the national language of Rwanda.[5] It is a dialect of the Rwanda-Rundi language that is also spoken in Burundi and adjacent parts of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda (where there is a dialect known as Rufumbira or Urufumbira) and Tanzania. Kinyarwanda is universal among the native population of Rwanda and is mutually intelligible with Kirundi, the national language of neighbouring Burundi.[6] Kinyabwishya and Kinyamulenge are mutually intelligible dialects spoken in the North Kivu and South Kivu provinces of neighbouring DR Congo.
In 2010, the Rwanda Academy of Language and Culture (RALC)[7] was established to help promote and sustain Kinyarwanda. The organization attempted an orthographic reform in 2014, but it was met with pushback due to their perceived top-down and political nature, among other reasons.[8]
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