Kinyarwanda

E65621

Bantu language language natural language

Kinyarwanda is a Bantu language spoken primarily in Rwanda, where it serves as a national and widely used lingua franca.

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Bantu language → language → natural language →
belongsToLinguisticArea	Bantu languages of East Africa →
closelyRelatedTo	Kirundi → Rundi →
countryOfPrimaryUse	Rwanda →
glottologCode	kiny1244 →
hasAlternativeName	Rwanda → Rwandan →
hasDialects	multiple dialects →
hasEthnologueEntry	true →
hasGrammarFeature	extensive noun class agreement → object markers on verbs → subject-verb agreement →
hasMorphologicalType	agglutinative → polysynthetic (verb morphology) →
hasNativeName	Ikinyarwanda →
hasNounClassSystem	true →
hasPhonemicInventory	includes contrastive tone → includes prenasalized consonants →
hasStandardForm	Standard Kinyarwanda →
hasStandardizationBody	Rwandan Academy of Language and Culture (RALC) →
hasTonalPhonology	true →
isLinguaFrancaOf	Rwanda →
isNationalLanguageOf	Rwanda →
ISO639-1Code	rw →
ISO639-2Code	kin →
ISO639-3Code	kin →
isOfficialLanguageOf	Rwanda →
languageFamily	Bantu →
macrolanguageStatus	individual language →
primaryWordOrder	SVO →
region	Great Lakes region of Africa →
spokenIn	Burundi → Democratic Republic of the Congo → Rwanda → Uganda →
subfamily	Great Lakes Bantu → Rwanda-Rundi →
usedAsL2By	many inhabitants of Rwanda →
usedInEducationIn	Rwanda →
usedInGovernmentIn	Rwanda →
usedInMediaIn	Rwanda →
usedInOfficialDocumentsIn	Rwanda →
usedInReligiousContextsIn	Rwanda →
writingSystem	Latin script →

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Kigali → Rwanda →	officialLanguage
Google Translate →	availableLanguage
Kirundi →	closelyRelatedTo
Kinyarwanda ("Ikinyarwanda") →	hasNativeName
Friends World Committee for Consultation →	hasOfficialLanguage
Kinyarwanda ("Standard Kinyarwanda") →	hasStandardForm
Butaro, Rwanda →	languageUsed
Bantu languages →	majorLanguage
Kirundi →	neighboringLanguages