See soorce fer Kirundi

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'''Rundi''' (commonly seen in its native form, '''''Kirundi''''') is a [[Bantu leid]] (D62 in [[Malcolm Guthrie|Guthrie]]'s classification) spake bi some 8.7 million fowk in [[Burundi]] an adjacent pairts o [[Tanzanie]] an [[Congo-Kinshasa]], as weel as in [[Ugandae]]. 84% o the spekers ur [[Hutu]], 15% ur [[Tutsi]] an 1% ur [[Twa]].

Rundi is closely relatit tae the [[Rwanda leid]], the principal leid o neighbourin kintra [[Rwanda]], an tae [[Ha leid|Ha]], a leid spake in wastren [[Tanzanie]]. Rundi an Rwanda ur mutually intelligible.

The inhabitants o Rwanda an Burundi belang tae three different [[ethnic group]]s: [[Hutu]], [[Tutsi]], an [[Twa]] (a [[pygmy]] fowk). The fact that these ethnic groups share the same leid is assumed tae be the result o the Hutu ootnummering the latter twa groups (see [[Hutu]] for a mair complete historical perspective).

Rundi is frequently citit as a leid whaur [[Meeussen's rule]], a rule describin a certain pattern o tonal chynge in Bantu lsid, is active.
{|class="wikitable" 
!colspan="2"|Ensaumple owersets
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| Ego || Aye
|- 
| Oya || Naw
|-
| Uravuga icongereza? || Dae ye speak Inglis?
|-
| Bite? || Whit lik?
|-
| Mwaramutse || Hi/Guid Mornin
|-
| Ikirundi n'ikinyarwanda bisa nk'igi czek n'igi slovak|| Rundi an Rwanda ur closely relatit lik Czech an Slovak
|-
| Amata || Milk
|-
| Ejo || Yestreen
|- 
| Eejo° || The morra
|-
| Nzoza ejo/Nzoz'ejo || A will come the morra
|-
| Ubu || Noo
|-
| Faransa/Ubufaransa || Fraunce
|-
| Ngereza/Ubwongereza || Ingland
|-
| Leta  zunz'ubumwe z'amerika  || Unitit States o Americae
|-
| Ubudagi || Germany
|-
| Ububirigi || Belgium
|-Uburaya      Europe
|colspan="2"|°N.B. ''eejo'' is pronoonced the same as ''ejo'':<br />the ither ''e'' is wrate fur differentiation.
|}

== References ==
* Meeussen, A.E. (1959) ''Essai de grammaire Rundi'' Annales du Musée Royal du Congo Belge, Série Sciences Humaines - Linguistique, vol. 24. Tervuren

== External links ==
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*[http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=run Ethnologue on Rundi]
*[http://marston.freemethodistchurch.org/Dictionaries/Hi-Res/english-kirundi%20dictionary.pdf Free English-Kirundi Dictionary] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110726064720/http://marston.freemethodistchurch.org/Dictionaries/Hi-Res/english-kirundi%20dictionary.pdf |date=2011-07-26 }}
*[http://marston.freemethodistchurch.org/Dictionaries/Hi-Res/kirundi-english%20dictionary.pdf Free Kirundi-English Dictionary] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110726064811/http://marston.freemethodistchurch.org/Dictionaries/Hi-Res/kirundi-english%20dictionary.pdf |date=2011-07-26 }}
*[http://www.panafril10n.org/wikidoc/pmwiki.php/PanAfrLoc/RwandaRundi PanAfrican L10n page on Kirundi...]
*[http://cecilia.ls.fi.upm.es/~jmartinez/wiki/index.php/Learning_Kirundi Learning Kirundi] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080513124329/http://cecilia.ls.fi.upm.es/~jmartinez/wiki/index.php/Learning_Kirundi |date=2008-05-13 }} (in Spanish)
*[http://amajambo.ijuru.com Online Kirundi/English dictionary] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080801021745/http://amajambo.ijuru.com/ |date=2008-08-01 }}

[[Category:Leids o Burundi]]
[[Category:Leids o the Democratic Republic o the Congo]]
[[Category:Leids o Tanzanie]]
[[Category:Leids o Ugandae]]
[[Category:Northeast Bantu leids]]