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Languages Spoken in Rwanda

Official: English and French and Kinyarwanda and Swahili

Rwanda has a population of 13.6 million and is home to a small number of language communities, with 4 languages meeting our inclusion threshold. English and French and Kinyarwanda and Swahili serve as the official languages. Of the languages spoken in Rwanda, 4 are supported by LEXIGO's professional translation services.

13.6M
Population
4
Languages
4
LEXIGO

Languages spoken in Rwanda

Kinyarwanda Official
Latin script
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77%
CLDR
English Official
English Braille, English alphabet
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15%
CLDR
French Official
French Braille, French alphabet
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6%
CLDR
Swahili Official
Latin script, Swahili Ajami
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CIA World Factbook

"Kinyarwanda (official, universal Bantu vernacular) 93.2%, French (official) <0.1%, English (official) <0.1%, Swahili/Kiswahili (official, used in commercial centers) <0.1%, more than one language, other 6.3%, unspecified 0.3% (2002 est.)"

Data sources
Unicode CLDR (population percentages)
CIA World Factbook (official languages)
Wikidata (language families, scripts)
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