Rundi in Burundi

Speakers

7,811,967

Type

Location

Rundi in Burundi

Country

Information available

1. Basics

Names

Rundi in Burundi

Size

7,811,967

Kirundi is the national language of Burundi. It is spoken by almost all Burundians living in the country, serving as their mother tongue, but also understood in areas close to Burundi in neighbouring countries (Rwanda, Democratic Republic of Congo, Tanzania). 

2. Status

Status

  • Official country wide language
  • Official regional language
  • Official minority language
  • Recognised community language
  • Unrecognised community language
National language
Yes
Indigenous language
Yes

3. State

Documentation: materials

Written

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes

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Video

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes

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Audio

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes

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Documentation: descriptions

  • Elaborated dictionaries, grammars, statistical language models, etc.
  • Dictionaries and grammars
  • Dictionary and grammar
  • Glossary and descriptions
  • Few descriptions
  • No descriptions
Digital
No

Standardization

  • Modern standard language
  • Young standard language
  • Standardised language
  • Quasi-standard language
  • Semi-standardised language
  • Un-standardised language
Comments
Kirundi is used officially and this has brought the language to a conventional form which has not come to be regulated by official texts.

Graphisation & script encoding

  • Standardised writing system with full script encoding
  • Conventionalised writing system with partial script encoding
  • Consistent writing system with no script encoding
  • Unsystematic writing system(s)
  • Limited written use
  • No written use

4. Users

Geographical distribution

  • Users live and dominate in all regions of the country
  • Users live in one [state/...] of the country
  • Users live in a cross-border region [state/...] of the country
  • Users live in separated [states/...] of the country
  • Users live dispersed across one [state/...] of the country
  • Users live scattered all over the country

Settlements

  • Rural
  • Urban

Size / Number of users

Number of users

7811967
Source
census
Year
2008

Users within total population

97.00000
100 % use the language

PROPORTION

97
Source
census, 2008
Year
2022

Users within the reference community

100 % use the language

Age distribution of users

1,136,113
51
percentage of members of middle generations (15-65)
Source

census, 2008

Year
2022

Age distribution of users

1,077,843
48
percentage of members of young generations (< 15)
Source

census, 2008

Year
2022

Age distribution of users

19,115
1
percentage of members of older generations (> 65)
Source

census, 2008

Year
2022

Generational use

100
100
All generations
Year
2022

Educational attainment

Lower secondary education
Early childhood education
Primary education
Lower secondary education
Higher secondary education
Tertiary education

Occupational qualifications

Elementary occupations
Source

census, 2008

Plant and machine operators and assemblers
Source

census, 2008

Craft and related trades workers
Source

census, 2008

53
47
592,631
Skilled agricultural, forestry and fishery workers
Source

census, 2008

Services and sales workers
Source

census, 2008

Clerical support workers
Source

census, 2008

Technicians and associate professionals
Source

census, 2008

Professionals
Source

census, 2008

Managers
Source

census, 2008

Language competence

100
100
Understand all, speak/sign fluently
Comments

National language and mother tongue of almost Burundians.

Year
2022
Source

census, 2008

Understand little, speak/sign none
Source

census, 2008

Understand some, speak/sign little
Source

census, 2008

Understand well, speak/sign some
Source

census, 2008

Understand all, speak/sign well
Source

census, 2008

100
100
7,811,967
Understand all, speak/sign fluently
Year
2022
Source

census, 2008

Literacy of users

(Almost) 100 % of users with literacy in the language
Source

census, 2008

Digital use

More than 50% digital users of the language
Source

census, 2008

5. Use

Socio-geographic dimension

Geographic scope
  • International
  • Supranational
  • Cross-border (states)
  • State-wide
  • Supra-regional cross-border
  • Supra-regional
  • Regional cross-border
  • Regional
  • Local

Economic dimension

Functional dimension

Functional scope
  • Public domains
  • Everyday domains
  • Private domains
Nature
equal
Functional scope
  • Public domains
  • Everyday domains
  • Private domains
Nature
equal
Functional scope
  • Public domains
  • Everyday domains
  • Private domains
Nature
equal

Functional use in administration

Language use in administration
  • International level
  • National level
  • Regional level
  • Local level
  • Auxiliary use
  • No use

Types of language use

  • signed / spoken use
  • written use
  • digital use

Language is used for

  • Census data
  • Census surveys
  • Election processes
  • Topographical signs

Ethnoculture

  • No use
  • Informal learning
  • Skills and knowledge
  • Performing arts
  • Social practices
  • Customary law
  • Traditional medicine
  • Knowledge and practices
  • Traditions and expressions

Formal Education

Early childhood education
Primary level
Lower secondary level
Higher secondary level
Tertiary level

Public healthcare

Information, communication and cultural production

Specify
Information services, Broadcasting, video, film, sound/music recording, publishing activities
Specify
Information services, Broadcasting, video, film, sound/music recording, publishing activities

Legal system

Language use in the legal system
  • General use
  • Legal transactions
  • Court proceedings
  • Written submissions
  • Spoken/signed testimonies
  • Language not used

Geographical scope of legal language use

  • Local
  • Regional
  • National
  • International

Completion