Language Information
Kirundi or Rundi is a Bantu language with about 11.2 million speakers, most of whom live in Burundi. There are also some speakers of Kirundi in Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda and Congo-Kinshasa. Kirundi is closely related to more or less mutually intelligible with Kinyarwanda. Kirundi is one of the official languages of Burundi, along with French, and is the spoken mainly by Hutus, but also by Tutsis and Twa people, in most parts of the country.
Kirundi is not currently taught on the IU campus, but we do have access to archived materials. Access the Foreign Service Institute Course. Learn more about Kirundi here.