Kinyarwanda also known as Orunyarwanda or Ruanda or Urunyaruanda or Rwandan or Rwanda or Ikinyarwanda is a language spoken in Burundi, Congo drc, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda by the Abanyarwanda people.
Kinyarwanda language has approximately 21,000,000 native speakers.
A person who speaks Kinyarwanda is known as Umunyarwanda.
Kinyarwanda is an official language in Rwanda.
The language has 7 dialects; Bufumbwa, Ikinyabwishya, Igikiga, Ikinyamurenge, Ikirera, Urufumbira and Urutwatwa.
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