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English was reported to be spoken by 15% of the population in 2009, though the same report found the proportion of French-speakers to be 68%. [9] Swahili is spoken by fewer than 1%. [10] Inhabitants of Rwanda's Nkombo Island speak Mashi, a language closely related to Kinyarwanda. [11]
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.
This is a list of countries by number of languages according to the 22nd edition of Ethnologue (2019). [1] ... Rwanda: 3 2 5 0.07 11,124,180 2,224,836 5,440
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.
A language that uniquely represents the national identity of a state, nation, and/or country and is so designated by a country's government; some are technically minority languages. (On this page a national language is followed by parentheses that identify it as a national language status.) Some countries have more than one language with this ...
This is a list of languages by number of native speakers. Current distribution of human language families. All such rankings of human languages ranked by their number of native speakers should be used with caution, because it is not possible to devise a coherent set of linguistic criteria for distinguishing languages in a dialect continuum. [1]
The Banyamulenge are a community that lives mainly in South Kivu Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo.The Banyamulenge are not culturally and socially distinct from the Tutsi of South Kivu, with most speaking Kinyamulenge, a mix of Kinyarwanda (official language of Rwanda), Kirundi (spoken primarily in Burundi), [1] Ha (spoken by the Ha people, one of the largest ethnic groups in ...
Christianity is the largest religion in the country; the principal and national language is Kinyarwanda, spoken by native Rwandans, with English, French and Swahili serving as additional official foreign languages. Rwanda's economy is based mostly on subsistence agriculture. Coffee and tea are the major cash crops that it exports.