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
[eedit | eedit soorce]- Meeussen, A.E. (1959) Essai de grammaire Rundi Annales du Musée Royal du Congo Belge, Série Sciences Humaines - Linguistique, vol. 24. Tervuren
External links
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Rundi edeetion o Wikipaedia, the free encyclopaedia |
- Ethnologue on Rundi
- Free English-Kirundi Dictionary Archived 2011-07-26 at the Wayback Machine
- Free Kirundi-English Dictionary Archived 2011-07-26 at the Wayback Machine
- PanAfrican L10n page on Kirundi...
- Learning Kirundi Archived 2008-05-13 at the Wayback Machine (in Spanish)
- Online Kirundi/English dictionary Archived 2008-08-01 at the Wayback Machine