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Kirundi

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Rundi (commonly seen in its native form, Kirundi) is a Bantu leid (D62 in Guthrie's classification) spake bi some 8.7 million fowk in Burundi an adjacent pairts o Tanzanie an Congo-Kinshasa, as weel as in Ugandae. 84% o the spekers ur Hutu, 15% ur Tutsi an 1% ur Twa.

Rundi is closely relatit tae the Rwanda leid, the principal leid o neighbourin kintra Rwanda, an tae Ha, a leid spake in wastren Tanzanie. Rundi an Rwanda ur mutually intelligible.

The inhabitants o Rwanda an Burundi belang tae three different ethnic groups: Hutu, Tutsi, an Twa (a pygmy fowk). The fact that these ethnic groups share the same leid is assumed tae be the result o the Hutu ootnummering the latter twa groups (see Hutu for a mair complete historical perspective).

Rundi is frequently citit as a leid whaur Meeussen's rule, a rule describin a certain pattern o tonal chynge in Bantu lsid, is active.

Ensaumple owersets
Ego Aye
Oya Naw
Uravuga icongereza? Dae ye speak Inglis?
Bite? Whit lik?
Mwaramutse Hi/Guid Mornin
Ikirundi n'ikinyarwanda bisa nk'igi czek n'igi slovak Rundi an Rwanda ur closely relatit lik Czech an Slovak
Amata Milk
Ejo Yestreen
Eejo° The morra
Nzoza ejo/Nzoz'ejo A will come the morra
Ubu Noo
Faransa/Ubufaransa Fraunce
Ngereza/Ubwongereza Ingland
Leta zunz'ubumwe z'amerika Unitit States o Americae
Ubudagi Germany
Ububirigi Belgium
°N.B. eejo is pronoonced the same as ejo:
the ither e is wrate fur differentiation.

References

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  • Meeussen, A.E. (1959) Essai de grammaire Rundi Annales du Musée Royal du Congo Belge, Série Sciences Humaines - Linguistique, vol. 24. Tervuren
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