Product Overview
Kinyarwanda Bible RC063P - Bibiliya Ntagatifu / Large Size with Color Illustrations / Printed in Korea
Features:
- Hardcover: 2216 pages
- Publisher: Bible Society of Rwanda (1997)
- Language: Kinyarwanda
- ISBN-10: 9966409963
- ISBN-13: 978-9966409966 / 9789966409966
- Product Dimensions: 8 x 6 x 1.4 inches
Kinyarwanda (IPA: [iciɲɑɾɡwɑːndɑ]); called in Uganda Igifumbira) is an official language of Rwanda and a dialect of the Rwanda-Rundi language spoken by 12 million people in Rwanda, Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo and adjacent parts of southern Uganda. (The Kirundi dialect is the official language of neighbouring Burundi.)
Kinyarwanda is one of the three official languages of Rwanda (along with English, French and Kiswahili) and is spoken by almost all of the native population. That contrasts with most modern African states, whose borders were drawn by colonial powers and do not correspond to ethnic boundaries or precolonial kingdoms.
Rwanda | |
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Kinyarwanda | |
Native to | Rwanda, Uganda, Democratic Republic of the Congo |
Native speakers
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9.8 million (2007)[1] |
Latin | |
Official status | |
Official language in
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Rwanda |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-1 | rw |
ISO 639-2 | kin |
ISO 639-3 | kin |
Glottolog | kiny1244 [2] |
JD.61 [3] |
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Linguasphere | 99-AUS-df |