Kirundi

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

 External links 

Ethnologue on Rundi
Free English-Kirundi Dictionary 
Free Kirundi-English Dictionary 
PanAfrican L10n page on Kirundi... 
Learning Kirundi  (in Spanish)
Online Kirundi/English dictionary 

Category:Leids o Burundi
Category:Leids o the Democratic Republic o the Congo
Category:Leids o Tanzanie
Category:Leids o Ugandae
Category:Northeast Bantu leids