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