kinyarwanda
French, noun/ki.nja.ʁwɑ̃.da/
kinyarwanda is spelled K-I-N-Y-A-R-W-A-N-D-A (11 letters) and appears about once in every 15 million words in written French, the 125,137th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Kinyarwanda is a French masculine noun meaning “Kinyarwanda (language)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Langue bantoue parlée au Rwanda, en République démocratique du Congo, au Burundi, en Ouganda et en Tanzanie”.
What does kinyarwanda mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineKinyarwanda (language)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Langue bantoue parlée au Rwanda, en République démocratique du Congo, au Burundi, en Ouganda et en Tanzanie.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
How do you pronounce kinyarwanda?
- /ki.nja.ʁwɑ̃.da/
- \ki.nja.ʁwan.da\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is kinyarwanda in French?
kinyarwanda appears about once in every 15 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).