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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.
Many scholars have concluded that the determination of Tutsi was and is mainly an expression of class or caste, rather than ethnicity. Rwandans have their own language, Kinyarwanda. English, French and Swahili serve as additional official languages for different historic reasons, and are widely spoken by Rwandans as a second language. [29]
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 .
(Top) 1 Number of living ... Papua New Guinea has the largest number of languages in the world. [2] [3] Number of living languages and speakers ... Rwanda: 3 2 5 0.07 ...
The Niger–Congo languages constitute the largest language family spoken in West Africa and perhaps the world in terms of the number of languages. [ citation needed ] One of its salient features is an elaborate noun class system with grammatical concord .
Afrikaans; Anarâškielâ; العربية; Aragonés; Azərbaycanca; تۆرکجه; Башҡортса; Беларуская; Беларуская (тарашкевіца)
Rwanda joined the East African Community in 2007, and has ratified a plan for monetary union amongst the seven member nations, [176] which could eventually lead to a common East African shilling. [177] Rwanda is a country of few natural resources, [134] and the economy is based mostly on subsistence agriculture by local farmers using simple ...
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.