Language code: rw
Technical information about ISO 639 language code rw
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The table below provides technical details for the Kinyarwanda language, designated by the rw code from the ISO 639-1 standard.
| Code |
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| Standard | |
| Name | Official Kinyarwanda Native Ikinyarwanda |
| Family | Bantu |
| Text direction | Left-to-Right |
| Language varieties | Central KinyarwandaNorthwestern (Bufumbwa)Eastern (Gisaka) |
| Related languages | KirundiHaHangaza |
| Key facts | Tonal language with high and low tonesEmploys over sixteen noun classes typical of Bantu languagesVerbs are highly agglutinative, packing subject, tense-aspect-mood and multiple object markers into a single wordCurrent Latin-based orthography was standardized in the 1940s with only five vowel lettersHas about 90 % mutual intelligibility with neighbouring Kirundi. |
| Sample phrase | Muraho, amakuru yawe? |
| Character encodings | |
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Kinyarwanda belongs to the Niger-Congo language family, specifically within the Bantu subgroup. It is one of the official languages of Rwanda and is also spoken by minority communities in Uganda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Tanzania. Kinyarwanda is written using the Latin script. It is estimated that there are around 15 million speakers worldwide.
Language presence globally
*The graph shows a rough estimate of Kinyarwanda speakers in countries where it is an official or minority language.
Related locale codes
rw-RW – Kinyarwanda (Rwanda)
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- What is Localizely?
- Getting started
- Localization workflow
- Translation editor
- Flutter Over-the-Air updates
- Flutter In-Context Editing
- Project branching
- Professional translation services
- Machine Translation
- AI Translation
- Translation Memory
- Glossary
- Reports and statistics
- Figma integration
- AWS S3 integration
- GitHub integration
- GitLab integration
- Bitbucket integration
- CLI
- Configuration file
- Supported file formats
- Language & Country Codes
- Referral Program
- I18N Questions
- FAQ