Talk:Kinyarwanda

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strangeloop 19:42, 14 Aug 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Since Ba is a prefix meaning "people", and since the common means of referring to peoples outside of Bantu languages is to drop the Ba, wouldn't it make more sense to say Hutu, Tutsi, and Twa? I know that your way is more proper, but it's my impression that we're supposed to use what will be most commonly understood, not what is most technically direct, except when explaining what /is/ most technically correct...Kaz 17:08, 14 Jan 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree with this. The most common use of these terms in English is without the noun class prefix. — mark ✎ 07:23, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

text: Yep, sort of. There is something about the 'nya' part though, because the closely related language of Burundi isn't called Kinyarundi but Kirundi. — mark ✎ 07:23, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

text: Odd, the Kinyarwanda Wikipedia has "abatutsi", not "batutsi".  Is the noun class prefix "aba" in Kinyarwanda, or "ba"?  If it's the latter, is there an explanation for "aba"? --Saforrest 00:54, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ba 

message: There is an ethnic division in Rwanda, regardless of the origins of this division.  An ethnic group can be defined by many parameters. Imperial78
As can easily be seen in the article entitled 'Tutsi', there is large-scale debate over the ethnic nature of the so-called tribes. Ionius Mundus 18:09, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Ethnic Divisions

message: Would it be Amafaranga Rwanda or Rwanda Amafaranga? Or a variation of either? Thankyou Enlil Ninlil 04:12, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Rwandan franc]]

message: I find it horrible that a page dedicated to the beautiful Kinyarwanda language gets a section titled "genocide-related vocabulary". This speaks volumes about how far the current regime in Kigali has gone into political propaganda. It would have been more true to call it "RPF-propaganda vocabulary". For instance, "inyenzi" means cockroach and it also refers to -mostly tutsi- bush fighters from different guerilla groups, the latest of which being RPF Inkotanyi. Only RPF propagandists say that "inyenzi" refers to tutsi in general to make it look like hutus always hated tutsi, while the truth is that hutu always suffered atrocities by the hand of the successive "inyenzi" armies and therefore never liked them.Ruramaguru (talk) 23:28, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Wikipedia is not a dictionary and is not a place for lists of vocabulary, whether "genocide-related" or not. --Ptcamn (talk) 12:26, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Genocide-related vocabulary" 

message: If you are a native speaker of Kinyarwanda then you can help translate this template into your own language:
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--Amazonien (talk) 21:58, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Kinyarwanda language template

message: Where is the aphabet? I'm confused.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.9.153.245 (talk) 23:21, 25 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Alphabet 

message: Shouldn't this page use the standard Bantu noun classification system as is taught in Rwandan schools and used in most books? (see http://kinyarwanda.net/page.php?name=nouns) Rowanseymour (talk) 10:27, 6 November 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Have gone ahead and updated the noun table - I've included the classification system that was being used, but I can find any sources for it - so maybe we can remove it and just have the 16 standard noun classes and the 10 classes used by Betty Ellen Cox? Rowanseymour (talk) 18:50, 20 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Noun classes 

message: By Rwanda, local population in July 2010 was estimated at 11,055,976. Here, we can read that Kinyarwanda is "spoken by some 12 million people in Rwanda". Clearly, either one must be wrong. I suspect the former might be closer to the correct number, as CIA World Factbook also offers an estimation of 11,370,425 for July 2011. --Oop (talk) 13:09, 27 May 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Rwanda and Uganda. About a quarter million in DRC and three quarters in Uganda. — kwami (talk) 14:00, 27 May 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Sounds fair enough... and presumably a much more accurate figure than the 7.5 million, which would be the population of Rwanda about 8-10 years ago. (Although I wonder how many of the 12 million are babies under the age of two, who may not speak much of the language anyway, and in a country like Rwanda form a larger proportion of the population than in the developed world. Presumably linguists have a policy on whether these are included or not anyway).  — Amakuru (talk) 21:50, 27 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Number of speakers

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message: I lived in Rwanda 5 years in the 1980s. An orthographic combination that was very common was “nt”, similarly, “nk” and “mp”, where the second letter came across as what could be described as a plosive aspirate (to coin a term). In other Bantu languages the equivalent orthography was “nh”, or “mh” (not sure about “nk”). Why is there  no mention of these orthographies and their pronunciation? Because they are not simply pronounced as an English speaker might think.  Ptilinopus (talk) 04:19, 1 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Orthography/pronunciation 

message: There seems to be frequent use of the apostrophe but the orthography section makes no mention of this and what it’s function is. Can anyone provide that information? 2WR1 (talk) 02:44, 11 May 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Apostrophe 

message: Jenoside yakorewe Abatutsi 1994, Itsembabwoko ryakorewe AbatutsiIt, Jenoside yakorewe Abatutsi mu Rwanda mu 1994 ryari iyicwa ry'Abatutsi ndetse nabamwe m'Abahutu banze kwifatanya n'abandi mu bwicanyi bwakorerwaga Abatutsi. Mu minsi ijana gusa yahitanye Abatutsi Barenga Miliyoni (1.000.000+) Ir'itsembabwoko mu buryo bweruye ryatangiye kuva itariki ya 06 Mata 1994 kugeza Nyakanga 1994. Mu masaha y' mugoroba, ubwo indege yaritwaye uwari umukuru w'igihugu Perezida Habyarimana Yuvenari yaraswaga n'abantu bataramenyekana, ingabo nyinshi zatangiye kwica Abatutsi. Minisitiri w'Intebe, Agathe Uwilingiyimana ari mubiswe mbere kubera kutemeranya n'umugambi wo gutsembatsemba. BOSS Wa 3 (talk) 22:43, 24 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  RWANDA JENOCIDE AGAINEST TUTSI 1994.