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Kinyarwanda Dictionary 1.0

This is Iriza Basic Kinyarwanda Dictionary written in today's Kinyarwanda orthography and based on Comparative African Wordlist (CAWL). This is an attempt to the future creation of Iriza Dictionary for East African Community that will contribute to the alleviation of language barriers and promote the socio-economic interaction among the regional communities.
Kinyarwanda is the national language and one of the four official languages of the Republic of Rwanda which are English, French and Kiswahili.

According to linguist scholars, Kinyarwanda is probably, after Kiswahili the second largest spoken language in the Bantu group. It is a sister dialect of Kirundi, the national language of Burundi and Giha, another dialect spoken in Tanzania.

More than 30 million people speaks Kinyarwanda or its dialects. Rwanda has around 12 million people right now, Burundi whose population understand well Kinyarwanda has around 11 million. Besides the Giha speakers, there are also ethnic Banyarwanda in Southern Uganda in the Kigezi district known as Bafumbira. Other Kinyarwanda speakers are Banyamulenge in Southern Kivu and other Congolese Banyarwanda in Masisi and Rutshuro in Northern Kivu in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Kinyarwanda belongs to the interlacustrine (Great Lakes) Bantu languages.

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Reviews (17)

Yas. U. Jan 31, 2020     

Thank you for creating this app, but you should have made a greater research before making it. The truth is that many words are missing. Some transilations are wrong, check on 'za', is (za - those) or (za - for) etc. Please, make corrections in your app.

Ahm. P. Sep 1, 2020     

Its good progress and somehow helpful, but i suggest you update by adding new missing words. There are some most useful words that are not there. Thanks for your idea to do this and for your understanding...

Via. H. J. May 27, 2022     

Nice but try to add my words because no more words within

jac. f. Aug 19, 2019     

this app still needs more Rwandan words and their clear explanations

Jea. K. Jul 25, 2021     

Good But some words are missing

Kim. M. Mar 1, 2020     

Sad it doesn't have most of the basic words

Tuy. O. Jan 22, 2022     

It helps to know some keywords u knows

A. G. u. Nov 7, 2018     

This is helpful and its awesome 🙏

Byi. l. Nov 19, 2019     

Update your app we need more words

Kai. B. D. Oct 30, 2019     

It has been a good moment to know more about your application

A. G. u. Nov 28, 2018     

hv liked it

Mug. E. May 12, 2018     

This app is helpful in anyway, I appreciate the developper who got this inspirational idea. Although some reviewers said:"it contains some errors" but at least it is a positive approach. This is the starting step to develop kinyarwanda language. Special congrats to THE IRIZA BASIC KINYARWANDA DICTIONARY AND ITS DEVELOPER.

Nda. R. Oct 14, 2019     

The best ever made Kinyarwanda dictionary, but please update and add more words..

Tuy. C. Dec 23, 2016     

I give one star because it has many mistakes

Osa. k. Oct 21, 2017     

It'll help those who didn't grow up from home .very nice.

Lam. Y. J. May 6, 2018     

Great for those who didn't get raised back to motherland

eli. n. May 9, 2017     

This app is so good