Language code: rn

Technical information about ISO 639 language code rn

The table below provides technical details for the Rundi language, designated by the rn code from the ISO 639-1 standard.

Code

rn

Name

Official

Rundi

Native

Ikirundi

Family
Bantu
Text direction

Left-to-Right

Language varieties
Central RundiKirimiroBuyengeroBururiMugambaNgozi
Related languages
KinyarwandaHaLugandaNyankore
Key facts
Part of the Rwanda–Rundi subgroup of Great Lakes BantuAround 85 % mutual intelligibility with KinyarwandaUses 16 noun classes that govern agreement across the sentencePhonemic tone distinguishes both words and grammatical formsRich oral tradition of proverbs (imigani) and narrative poems (amagenge).
Sample phrase

Bwakeye, amakuru yawe?

Character encodings

UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32

Supported in Localizely

Rundi, also known as Kirundi, belongs to the Niger-Congo language family, more specifically to the Bantu subgroup. It is one of the official languages of Burundi and is written using the Latin script. It is estimated that there are more than 13 million speakers worldwide.

Language presence globally

Speakers

*The graph shows a rough estimate of Rundi speakers in countries where it is an official or minority language.

Related locale codes

rn-BI Rundi (Burundi)

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