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Technical information about ISO 639 language code rw
The table below provides technical details for the Kinyarwanda language, designated by the rw
code from the ISO 639-1 standard.
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.
*The graph shows a rough estimate of Kinyarwanda speakers in countries where it is an official or minority language.
rw-RW
– Kinyarwanda (Rwanda)
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