Kirundi

E43853

Bantu language natural language

Kirundi is a Bantu language primarily spoken in Burundi and neighboring regions of East Africa.

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Bantu language → natural language →
alsoKnownAs	Rundi →
closelyRelatedTo	Ha (language) → Kinyarwanda →
continent	Africa →
countryWhereNationalLanguage	Burundi →
glottocode	rund1242 →
hasDialects	Kirundi urban varieties → rural Kirundi varieties →
hasGrammarFeature	noun class agreement → object markers → subject-verb agreement → verbal affixation →
hasNounClassSystem	true →
hasPhonemicTone	true →
hasPhonologicalFeature	five-vowel system (approximate) → prenasalized consonants →
ISO639-1Code	rn →
ISO639-2Code	run →
ISO639-3Code	run →
languageFamily	Bantu →
linguisticTypology	agglutinative language →
majorCityWhereSpoken	Bujumbura → Gitega →
neighboringLanguages	French → Kinyarwanda → Swahili →
numberOfSpeakers	over 10 million →
officialStatus	official language of Burundi →
primaryCountry	Burundi →
region	East Africa → Great Lakes region of Africa →
regulatingBody	Burundi government language policy →
spokenIn	Burundi → Democratic Republic of the Congo → Rwanda → Tanzania →
subfamily	Narrow Bantu →
subgroup	Great Lakes Bantu languages →
usedByEthnicGroup	Barundi →
usedIn	administration in Burundi → education in Burundi → media in Burundi →
wordOrder	SVO →
writingSystem	Latin alphabet →

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Burundi → East African Community →	officialLanguage
Kinyarwanda →	closelyRelatedTo
Benue–Congo languages ("Kirundi language") →	hasNotableLanguage
Niger–Congo languages →	includesLanguage
Bantu languages →	majorLanguage