Language code: rw

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.

Code

rw

Name

Official

Kinyarwanda

Native

Ikinyarwanda

Family
Bantu
Scripts
Text direction

Left-to-Right

Plural rules

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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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