Language code: run

Technical information about ISO 639 language code run

The table below provides technical details for the Rundi language, designated by the run code from the ISO 639-2 standard.

Code

run

Name

Official

Rundi

Native

Ikirundi

Text direction

Left-to-Right

Language varieties
Standard (Central) RundiHutuTutsiTwa
Related languages
KinyarwandaHaGanda (Luganda)RunyankoreKiga
Key facts
Belongs to the Rwanda–Rundi subgroup of the Bantu familyShares over 80 % lexical similarity with Kinyarwanda, allowing mutual intelligibilityHas a system of roughly 16 noun classes that govern agreement throughout the sentenceUses two phonemic tones (high and low) that distinguish both words and grammatical categoriesWritten with a Latin-based orthography standardized in the mid-20th century.
Sample phrase

Mwiriwe, umeze gute?

Character encodings

UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32

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The Rundi language, identified by the code run, falls under the 'Individual' category in terms of its scope and is classified as 'Living' by its type.

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