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Rwanda

Languages

Description

The country's principal and national language is Kinyarwanda, which is spoken by nearly all Rwandans.

Official languages in Rwanda are:

• Kinyarwanda
• English
• French
• Swahili

Word List(s)

• French Genealogical Word List
• Useful phrases in Kinyarwanda - Omniglot
• Useful Swahili phrases - Omniglot
• Useful French phrases - Omniglot
• Yves Bemeriki, Kinyarwanda language : the Kinyarwanda phrasebok and dictionary, 2017 - Available at WorldCat
• Aquilina Mawadza, Kinyarwanda-English/English-Kinyarwanda Dictionary and Phrasebook, Hippocrene Books, Incorporated, 2016 - Available at WorldCat
• Martin Benjamin & Elin Berglund, Swahili phrasebook & dictionary, Footscray, Victoria : Lonely Planet, 2014 - Available at WorldCat

Alphabet and Pronunciation

Alphabet

• Kinyarwanda alphabet - Omniglot
• Swahili alphabet - Omniglot
• French alphabet - Omniglot

Pronunciation

• Kinyarwanda pronunciation - Glosbe
• Swahili pronunciation - Omniglot
• French pronunciation - Omniglot

Language Aids and Dictionaries

Dictionaries

• A H Zemback, English-Kinyarwanda dictionary, Charleston, SC : 2009 - Available at WorldCat
• Cyprien Niyomugabo, J P Hagenimana & C Ntawizera, Kinyarwanda-English, English-Kinyarwanda dictionary, Kigali : Fountain Publishers ; Oxford, UK : Distributed in Europe and Commonwealth countries outside Africa by African Books Collective, 2009 - Available at WorldCat
• Charles Bimbenet, Janet Gough, Cordelia Lily, Christian Salzédo & Anna Stevenson, Collins Robert French Dictionary, Glasglow : HarperCollins Publishers, 2020 - Available at WorldCat
• Frederick Johnson & A C Madan, A English-Swahili dictionary, New Delhi : Asian Educational Services, 2002 - Available at WorldCat
• D V Perrott; J C Russell, Swahili dictionary : Swahili-English/English-Swahili, London : Teach Yourself, 2003 - Available at WorldCat

Online Dictionaries

• Dictionary English - Kinyarwanda - Glosbe
• Dictionary Swahili - English - Glosbe
• Dictionary English - French - Glosbe

Language Aids

• French grammar - Omniglot
• Alexandre Kimenyi, A relational grammar of Kinyarwanda, Ann Arbor, Mich : University Microfilms International, 1990 - Available at WorldCat
• E O Ashton, Swahili grammar, Essex, U.K. : Longman Group, 1982 - Available at WorldCat