Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us; Pages for logged out editors learn more
Kinyarwanda, [3] Rwandan or Rwanda, officially known as Ikinyarwanda, [4] is a Bantu language and the national language of Rwanda. [5] It is a dialect of the Rwanda-Rundi language that is also spoken in adjacent parts of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and in Uganda , where the dialect is known as ikinyakore,Rufumbira,or Urufumbira .
Writing was introduced during the colonial era, but most Rwandan authors of that time wrote in French. [96] There is, however, a strong tradition of oral literature amongst the Banyarwanda. The royal court [ 97 ] included poets ( abasizi ), [ 98 ] who recited Kinyarwanda verse covering topics such as the royal lineage, [ 98 ] as well as ...
Rwanda-Rundi or West Highlands Kivu is a group of Bantu languages, specifically a dialect continuum, spoken in Central Africa.Two dialects, Kirundi and Kinyarwanda, have been standardized as the national languages of Burundi and Rwanda respectively.
Created Date: 8/30/2012 4:52:52 PM
The name Ibitekerezo is derived from the Kinyarwanda verb gutekereza, which means "to recount, reflect, or consider". [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Before Rwanda was colonized by the Germans in the late 19th century and later the Belgians after World War I , the history of the national heroes of Rwanda was known to the people through Ibitekerezo. [ 7 ]
Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us
Kinyarwanda is an obscure name, Rwanda well known; also, we generally drop the prefixes from Bantu names; if we leave them on, it can sometimes be unclear what is the stem (though, of course, that can be clarified in the article), just as we have Hutu and Tutsi rather than Abahutu and Abatutsi, despite the lack of a Hutu or Tutsi language.