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Basic Facts about Kinyarwanda

The Kinyarwanda language is a Bantu language spoken primarily in Rwanda, where it is one of the official languages of the country. French and English are also official languages in Rwanda. It is also referred to as Rwanda or Ruanda.

It is also spoken well in southern Uganda as well as in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Interestingly , Kinyarwanda is related to Kirundi, which is spoken in Burundi and Tanzania. Kinyarwanda is mutually intelligible with Kirundi which in turn is an official language of Burundi ( Ethnologue, 15th ed).

Kinyarwanda is spoken by approximately 7 million speakers.Like many African language, Kinyarwanda is a tonal language which makes it sometimes challening for native English speakers.

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Kinyarwanda-Rwanda Blogposts

Are Our Children Really Learning English?: I have discovered that some of the teachers explain English course materials in Kinyarwanda," said another parent, amid rumblings across the meeting hall. In 2008, the Government of Rwanda took an unprecedented decision to adopt English as lingua ...
Ntaganda Mutiny Shatters Tenuous Peace in Eastern Congo: ?The soldiers took her with them,? she told World Politics Review in her native Kinyarwanda language. ?I still don't know if she's alive.? In a region plagued by 16 years of intermittent conflict, abuse by both rebels and the Congolese armed forces has ...
UN Condemns Upsurge in 'Blind Violence' in Eastern Congo: The Rwandophones are Kinyarwanda speakers, of both the Hutu and Tutsi ethnic groups. They are migrants or descendants of migrants to the Congo from neighboring Rwanda. FDLR members are the remnant of Rwandan Hutu forces who fled to Congo after the 1994 ...
MHC Launches Media Code of Conduct: The media code of conduct manual, which will be available in both Kinyarwanda and English, was launched during the World Press Freedom celebrations on May 3. At the same occasion, the Council also handed out the media excellence awards.