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Kinyarwanda, [3] Rwandan or Rwanda, officially known as Ikinyarwanda, [4] is a Bantu language and the national language of Rwanda. [5] It is a dialect of the Rwanda-Rundi language that is also spoken in adjacent parts of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and in Uganda , where the dialect is known as Rufumbira or Urufumbira .
The provinces of Rwanda (Kinyarwanda: intara) are divided into districts (akarere) and municipalities (umujyi). Prior to January 1, 2006, Rwanda was composed of 12 provinces. The Rwandan government decided to establish new provinces in an attempt to address issues that arose from the Rwandan genocide. The new provinces were to be "ethnically ...
An anti-AIDS campaign poster in English, Rwanda.Kinyarwanda is the national language of Rwanda, [1] and the first language of almost the entire population of the country. It is one of the country's official languages alongside French, [2] English, [3] and Swahili.
Rwanda-Rundi or West Highlands Kivu is a group of Bantu languages, specifically a dialect continuum, spoken in Central Africa.Two dialects, Kirundi and Kinyarwanda, have been standardized as the national languages of Burundi and Rwanda respectively.
Kigali monument in the Kigali Car-Free Zone. The name Kigali comes from the Kinyarwanda prefix ki-combined with the adjective suffix -gali, which means wide or broad.This was originally applied to Mount Kigali, most likely because the mountain itself was broad and wide, with the city later being named after the mountain. [4]
The five provinces of Rwanda are divided into 30 districts (Kinyarwanda: uturere, sing. akarere). Each district is in turn divided into sectors (Kinyarwanda: imirenge, sing. umurenge), which are in turn divided into cells (Kinyarwanda: utugali, sing. akagali), which are in turn divided into villages (Kinyarwanda: imidugudu, sing. umudugudu).
About Wikipedia; Contact us; Contribute Help; Learn to edit; Community portal; Recent changes; Upload file; ... Kinyarwanda is a 2011 film based on the Rwandan genocide.
Kinyarwanda is a Bantu language, and is mutually intelligible with Kirundi, an official language of Burundi and Ha, a language of western Tanzania; together, these languages form part of the wider dialect continuum known as Rwanda-Rundi. [86]