Kinyarwanda
Bantu language spoken in Central Africa and East Africa, official in Rwanda
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Summary
Kinyarwanda is a natural language[1]. Kinyarwanda draws 3,130 Wikipedia views per month (natural language category, ranking #112 of 734).[2]
Key Facts
- Influenced by: Swahili[3]
- Country: Democratic Republic of the Congo[4], Rwanda[5], Uganda[6]
- Instance of: modern language[7]
- Subclass of: Rwanda-Rundi[8]
- Writing system: Latin script[9]
- Commons category: Kinyarwanda language[10]
- Wikimedia language code: rw[11]
- Topic's main category: Category:Kinyarwanda[12]
- Number of speakers, writers, or signers: 12,100,000[13], 9,800,000[14], 9,300,000[15]
- Native label: Ikinyarwanda[16], Kinyarwanda[17]
- Indigenous to: North Kivu[18], South Kivu[19], Rwanda[20], Kabale District[21], Kisoro District[22], kamukamua Dalton[23]
- Exact match: http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/KIN[24]
- Ethnologue language status: 1 National[25]
- Linguistic typology: subject–verb–object[26]
- Category for films in this language: Category:Kinyarwanda-language films[27]
- Maintained by WikiProject: WikiProject Intangible Cultural Heritage[28]
Why It Matters
Kinyarwanda has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[29] Kinyarwanda is known by 83 alternative names across languages and contexts.[30]