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Kirundi

Bantu language
Class type of: Rwanda-Rundi Q33583

Facts

10 properties
Instance of
natural language, modern language[7]
Country
Burundi, Tanzania, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda[3][4][5][6]
Subclass of
Rwanda-Rundi
Coordinate location
🗺️ -3.000°, 30.000°
Ethnologue language status
1 National[17]
Indigenous to
Hutu, Tutsi, Great Lakes Twa, Burundi[13][14][15][16]
Linguistic typology
subject–verb–object, tonal language, Meeussen's rule, consonant harmony[18][19][20][21]
Native label
Ikirundi[12]
Number of speakers, writers, or signers
+10800000, +8800000[10][11]
Writing system
Latin script, Latin alphabet[8][9]
🏷️ Also known as
en Rundi en Kirundi en Ikirundi ar لغة كيروندية ar كيروندية ar اللغة الكيروندية ar الكيروندية cs rundi cs kirundština de Rundi el Κιρουντί el Ρουντί es lengua kirundi es idioma kirundi fa زبان روندی fi rundi fi rundin kieli fr roundi fr rundi he קירונדי
🔖 Identifiers · 34
Library of Congress Authorities ID
sh85115846
GND ID
4333373-4
ABS ASCL 2011 code
9247
ASC Leiden Thesaurus ID
294935460
Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID
300389166
BNCF Thesaurus ID
98
Bibliothèque nationale de France ID
11961469d
Dewey Decimal Classification
496.39465
EU Knowledge Graph item ID
Karajukića Bunari
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
topic/Rundi-language
Ethnologue.com language code
run
Exact match
publications.europa.eu
Show all 34 identifiers +22
Freebase ID
/m/020gs9
GOST 7.75–97 code
рун 567
Glottolog code
rund1242
Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID
rundi
Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (2017)
3520563
Guthrie code
JD62
IAB code
1164
IETF language tag
rn
ISO 639-1 code
rn
ISO 639-2 code
run
ISO 639-3 code
run
IdRef ID
02761218X
J9U entity ID
987007548663905171
KBpedia ID
KirundiLanguage
LC and MARC vocabularies ID
languages/run, iso639-1/rn, iso639-2/run
Lingua Libre ID
physics
OmegaWiki Defined Meaning
812547
POSIX locale identifier
rn
Topic's main category
Category:Kirundi language
UN Thesaurus ID
1005623
WALS lect code
rnd
Yale LUX ID
concept/f2e9e81b-aa97-41d5-9702-bcaa9dbba02e

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🔗 Connections
← Languages spoken, written or signed 10
Francine Niyonsaba, Diane Nukuri, Youssouf Ndayishimiye, Esther Kamatari, Elsie Uwamahoro, Jeanne Gapiya-Niyonzima, Sada Nahimana, Imelde Sabushimike +2 more
← Native language 6
Tutsi, Francine Niyonsaba, Nyamko Sabuni, Youssouf Ndayishimiye, Jeanne Gapiya-Niyonzima, Sat-B
← Language of work or name 5
Arabic script, Kirundi Wikipedia, jw.org, MyOffice, BCU Kirundi-English Dictionary
Country 4
Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tanzania, Uganda, Burundi
Indigenous to 4
Burundi, Tutsi, Hutu, Great Lakes Twa
← Language used 4
Burundi, Kingdom of Burundi, Martyazo, BeTV
Linguistic typology 3
tonal language, subject–verb–object, consonant harmony
Instance of 2
natural language, modern language
← Category combines topics 2
Category:Kirundi nouns, Category:Articles containing Kirundi-language text
← Official language 2
Burundi, Bujumbura
← Original language of film or TV show 2
Gito l'ingrat, Neptune Frost
EU Knowledge Graph item ID 1
Karajukića Bunari
Lingua Libre ID 1
physics
Named after 1
Burundi
Subclass of 1
Rwanda-Rundi
Topic's main category 1
Category:Kirundi language
Writing system 1
Latin script
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Kirundi language
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Summary

Kirundi is a natural language[1]. Kirundi is a type of Rwanda-Rundi[2].

Body

Influence

Things named for Kirundi include Burundi[22], a sovereign state[23], in Burundi[24], founded in 1962[25], headquartered in Bujumbura[26].

Why It Matters

Entities named for Kirundi include Burundi[22], a sovereign state[23], in Burundi[24], founded in 1962[25], headquartered in Bujumbura[26].

Related Entities

Bujumbura Burundi Democratic Republic of the Congo Francine Niyonsaba physics Tanzania Uganda

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . scriptsource.org. Retrieved . scriptsource.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . scriptsource.org. Retrieved . scriptsource.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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  5. [7] ↑ . iso639-3.sil.org. iso639-3.sil.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . Ethnologue. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . github.com. github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  16. [17] ↑ . Ethnologue. Retrieved . ethnologue.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [23] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [24] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [25] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [26] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 6w ago · Printstream · 2026-09-27 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    GND ID → 4333373-4
    "Changed the item: QuickStatements 3.0 batch #56529: Import GNDs from dewiki"
  2. 24w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Country → Burundi, Tanzania, Democratic Republic of the Congo +1
    Indigenous to → Hutu, Tutsi, Great Lakes Twa +1
    Number of speakers, writers, or signers → 10,800,000, 8,800,000
    Category for films in this language → Category:Kirundi-language films
    + 7 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "Changed claim qualifiers: J9U entity ID: 987007548663905171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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