Ruanda

Ru•an•da

(ruˈɑn də)

n., pl. -das, (esp. collectively) -da. a member of an African people or group of peoples inhabiting Rwanda and parts of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda.

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Ruanda - a landlocked republic in central Africa; formerly a German colonyRwanda, Rwandese RepublicALIR, Army for the Liberation of Rwanda, FAR, Former Armed Forces, Interahamwe - a terrorist organization that seeks to overthrow the government dominated by Tutsi and to institute Hutu control again; "in 1999 ALIR guerrillas kidnapped and killed eight foreign tourists"East Africa - a geographical area in eastern Africacapital of Rwanda, Kigali - the national capital and largest city of Rwanda; located in central RwandaAfrica - the second largest continent; located to the south of Europe and bordered to the west by the South Atlantic and to the east by the Indian OceanKivu, Lake Kivu - a lake in the mountains of central Africa between Congo and RwandaHutu - a member of a Bantu people living in Rwanda and BurundiTutsi, Watusi, Watutsi - a member of a Bantu speaking people living in Rwanda and BurundiRwandan - a native or inhabitant of Rwanda

Ruanda

(also Urunyarwanda), the language of the Ruanda (Banyaruanda), spoken by more than 5 million persons (1967, estimate) in the republics of Rwanda and Burundi, the eastern regions of the Republic of Zaire, and the northwestern regions of Uganda and Tanzania.

Ruanda belongs to the northern zone of the Bantu language family. It is characterized by the presence of three distinctive tones and by dissimilation of identical consonant phonemes and loss and fusion of vowel phonemes across morpheme boundaries. The grammatical structure is characterized by the presence of 19 concord classes, with prefixed markers, and by a well-developed system of derivative verbal (mainly voice) suffixes. Categories of tense and aspect are expressed by means of infixed morphemes.

REFERENCES

Schumacher, P. P. “La Phonétique du Kinyarwanda.” Anthropos, vols. 16–26, 1921–31.
Doke, C. M. Bantu: Modern Grammatical, Phonetical and Lexicographical Studies Since 1860. London, 1945.
Hurel, E. Grammaire Kinyarwanda, 5th ed. Kabgaye, 1951.

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noun a landlocked republic in central Africa

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