Niger-Congo family
Kirundi
c. 1500 CE – today Living
Kirundi (c. 1500 CE – today) is a living Niger-Congo language. Lineage: Proto-Niger-Congo → Proto-Atlantic-Congo → Proto-Benue-Congo → Proto-Bantu → Kirundi.
See Kirundi on the interactive map- Speakers
- 9M (9,000,000)
- ISO 639-3
- run
- Glottocode
- rund1242
Great Lakes Bantu language of Burundi, mutually intelligible with Kinyarwanda.
Lineage
- Proto-Niger-Congoc. 10,000 BCE – 7,000 BCE
- Proto-Atlantic-Congoc. 7,000 BCE – 5,000 BCE
- Proto-Benue-Congoc. 5,000 BCE – 3,500 BCE
- Proto-Bantuc. 3,000 BCE – 1,000 BCE
- Kirundic. 1500 CE – today
Sister languages 21
Also descended from Proto-Bantu.