Kinyarwanda

Kinyarwanda, Rwandan or Rwanda, officially known as Ikinyarwanda, is a <a href="/facts/Bantu_language/6xKvpQ1a">Bantu language</a> and the <a href="/facts/National_language/QtJmz1H4">national language</a> of <a href="/facts/Rwanda/UKR5UdKy">Rwanda</a>. It is a dialect of the <a href="/facts/Rwanda-Rundi_language/e7WbvQIf">Rwanda-Rundi language</a> in <a href="/facts/Uganda/PabdegRm">Uganda</a>, where the dialect is known as Ikinyakore, Rufumbira, or Urufumbira. Kinyarwanda is universal among the native population of Rwanda and is mutually intelligible with <a href="/facts/Kirundi/9cPqf0oQ">Kirundi</a>, the national language of neighbouring Burundi. Kinyabwishya and Kinyamulenge are mutually intelligible dialects spoken in the <a href="/facts/North_Kivu/D27suJFx">North Kivu</a> and <a href="/facts/South_Kivu/M68QPU0k">South Kivu</a> provinces of neighbouring DR Congo.
In 2010, the Rwanda Academy of Language and Culture (RALC) was established to help promote and sustain Kinyarwanda. The organization attempted an orthographic reform in 2014, but it was met with pushback due to their perceived top-down and political nature, among other reasons.

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