Rwanda language

Rwanda language
Rwanda also spelled  Ruanda , also called  Kinyarwanda 

      a Bantu language spoken by some eight million people primarily in Rwanda and to a lesser extent in Burundi, Congo (Kinshasa) (Congo), Uganda, and Tanzania. The Bantu languages form a subgroup of the Benue-Congo branch (Benue-Congo languages) of the Niger-Congo language family. Rwanda is closely related to the Rundi language of Burundi.

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