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Name: Rwanda
Type: Language
Alternate Names: Kinyarwanda; Ruanda; Ikinyarwanda; Orunyarwanda; Urunyaruanda; Runyarwanda
Spoken in: Uganda, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Burundi
Number of speakers: 6,490,000 in Rwanda (1998). Population total all countries: 7,504,900 (Ethnologue)
Code: kin
Code Standard: ISO 639-3
Documentation: SIL
Families: Niger-Congo (Niger-Kordofanian)
Parent Subgroup: Rwanda-Rundi (J.60); Rwanda-Rundi (J. 60) (rwnr)
Child Dialects: Igikiga; Kiga; Tshiga (kin-igi) Bufumbwa (kin-buf) Rufumbira (kin-ruf) Mulenge; Kinyamulenge (kin-mul) Rutwa; Twa (kin-rut) Bwisha; Kinyabwisha (kin-bwi) Hutu; Lera; Ululera; Hera; Ndara; Shobyo; Tshogo; Ndogo (kin-hut)

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