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  Kinyarwanda Translation Service - English to Kinyarwanda Translation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
You probably don't speak Kinyarwanda yourself, so there are a few questions you'll need to consider when choosing a translation company.
Language is a living thing it develops and changes constantly.
Only professional translators whose native language is Kinyarwanda perform our English to Kinyarwanda translation.
www.appliedlanguage.com /languages/Kinyarwanda_translation.shtml/?source=germanfreelance   (482 words)

  
  Kinyarwanda language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kinyarwanda is the chief spoken language in Rwanda.
Kinyarwanda is a tonal language of the Bantu language family (Guthrie D61).
Kinyarwanda is closely related to Kirundi spoken in the neighboring country, Burundi and to Giha of western Tanzania.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kinyarwanda_language   (434 words)

  
 Alexandre Kimenyi's Website
Kinyarwanda, the national language of Rwanda is probably, after Kiswahili the second largest spoken language in the Bantu group.
What is interesting about this language as pointed out in Kimenyi (1980) and (2002) is the existence of (a)the subject-object reversal, (b) the wh-question in situ, (c) the lack of relative pronouns, (d) serialization and (e) the existence of multiple direct objects.
A Tonal Grammar of Kinyarwanda : An autosegmental and
www.kimenyi.com /kinyarwanda.php   (2969 words)

  
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According to him, the differences in perception and descriptions in a language usually lead to misunderstandings between witnesses and lawyers in the courtroom especially bearing in mind that judges rely on the testimonies of witnesses to make their conclusions.
Kinyarwanda and Kirundi (spoken in Burundi) are close languages.
Thus translating from Kinyarwanda has been one of the major challenges faced by both translators and interpreters who have the onus of shedding light on the thoughts and ideas of witnesses for the benefit of the judges.
www.ushmm.org /newsfeed/International_Law/viewstory.php?storyid=7011   (848 words)

  
 African Languages
The three most important languages are Moore (Mossi), spoken as a first or second language by over half the population, mainly in the center of the country; Jula (a Mande variety), spoken in the west; and Fufulde (a variety of Fula), spoken in the east.
The main languages are Amharic, Oromo, Tigrinya and Somali, with Amharic as the lingua franca being spoken as a first language by approximately 28 percent of the population and as a second language by a further 40 percent.
It is estimated that 13 indigenous languages are spoken in Malawi, The 1966 population census indicated that Chichewa was the majority language, spoken as a native language by 50.2 percent of the population and as a second language by a further 25 percent.
chora.virtualave.net /afrilang1.html   (10097 words)

  
 Tutsi - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
It is also understood under this view that in the course of time the invaders' language was submerged in the majority Hutu language, somewhat modifying the latter (similar to the way in which Norman French became subsumed by the Germanic Anglo-Saxon in England, while modifying it also).
Thus the commonality of language is not necessarily an argument for tribal identity.
In the Kinyarwanda language, a single Tutsi is called umututsi, and more than one (the plural) are abatutsi.
www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Tutsi   (1505 words)

  
 Se habla open source? | CNET News.com
Kinyarwanda, the language spoken by most Rwandans, has no words for many basic technical and computing terms, including the very word "computer," explained Steve Murphy, organizer of the project.
Many of those languages are unlikely to merit the attention of commercial software makers for the foreseeable future, so open-source projects are the only way to produce applications ordinary people can use.
Even though many of the language groups normally would be too rare to justify commercial software work, Microsoft is sharing the load with university and government programmers in India working under the Project Bhasha program.
news.com.com /2100-7344-5159179.html   (1812 words)

  
 Kirundi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Kinyaranda and French are the official languages of Rwanda.
Kinyarwanda is part of the Bantu sub-group of the central branch of the Niger-Congo language family.
It is closely related to Kirundi, the language of Burundi.
www.flw.com /languages/kinyarwanda.htm   (92 words)

  
 PLC
The Penn Language Center was established in 1989 for the purpose of expanding, intensifying and enriching Penn's language curriculum.
The University of Pennsylvania has a long and distinguished record in the teaching of foreign languages and plays a leading role in all the major research fields related to foreign language learning.
Language learning is highly integrated into both the curriculum and the research effort of the academic community.
ccat.sas.upenn.edu /plc   (177 words)

  
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Language exchange learning is also inexpensive because we provide free tips and conversation lesson plans that allow you to do a language exchange on your own.
Add your profile to the language exchange community and let others contact you to for language exchange learning.
www.mylanguageexchange.com /Learn/German.asp   (1027 words)

  
 Ethnologue report for language code:kin
Hima is an ethnic group speaking Rwanda or Rundi, not a language.
Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:
This web edition of the Ethnologue contains all the content of the print edition and may be cited as:
www.ethnologue.com /show_language.asp?code=kin   (160 words)

  
 OHCHR: Kinyarwanda () - Universal Declaration of Human Rights   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The language belongs to the Benue-Congo family, Bantu group.
Kinyarwanda, is an important language of east-central Africa.
Kinyarwanda is largely inherently intelligible with Kirundi, the official language of Burundi.
www.unhchr.ch /udhr/lang/rua1.htm   (1243 words)

  
 Cover Pages: Code for the Representation of the Names of Languages. From ISO 639, revised 1989.
The two-character language codes of ISO 639 are relevant to SGML encoding in two respects.
Second, the WSD (Writing System Declaration) implemented in the Text Encoding Initiative uses the [two-character] language code of ISO 639 (as amended) as a language.code attribute of the nat.language declaration, specifying the language in which the WSD is written.
The two-character language codes of ISO 639 are recognized as being inadequate for use as SGML language attributes when tagging text, viz, for use as global lang attributes attached to any element to identify the language of the text element or a language shift.
www.oasis-open.org /cover/iso639a.html   (687 words)

  
 Rwanda
All three groups speak the same language, practice the same religions, and live interspersed throughout the same territory; they are thus widely considered to share a common culture, despite deep political divisions.
Closely related to Kirundi (spoken in Burundi), Mashi (spoken in the South Kivu region of Congo), and Kiha (spoken in northwestern Tanzania), Kinyarwanda is a Bantu language.
Kinyarwanda is the primary cultural identifier for Rwandans living outside Rwanda.
www.everyculture.com /No-Sa/Rwanda.html   (6322 words)

  
 English, The National Language
When I taught in Rwanda, my graduate students at the National University were tri-lingual: their first language was the fiendishly difficult Bantu language Kinyarwanda; on top of that they had Belgian-delivered French, and then came English, the subject of their graduate work.
It's a matter of pragmatics: this is the language of the ruling class.
Is it a language designation, or a racial one?) It's not “racist” to say, we're speaking English because, folks, that's the mainstream idiom.
www.military.com /opinion/0,15202,98399,00.html   (1149 words)

  
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www.worldlanguage.com /Languages/Kinyarwanda.htm   (44 words)

  
 BRIEF
To sum up, using the words of Herbert Kelman: "language is a uniquely powerful instrument in unifying a diverse population." Kelman warns, however, that when linguistic unity does not occur naturally, attempts to compel unity by promoting the language of a dominant group may unintentionally foster divisiveness.
The consequences of discouraging or suppressing the use of a particular language are little different from the consequences of suppressing the content of speech.
Research on language shift debunks the oft-repeated fear of the English-only movement: that immigrants (primarily Spanish speakers) are not adopting English quickly enough and that, like the Francophones of Quebec, they will soon be clamoring for a separate, or at least a bilingual, state.
www.languageandlaw.org /LANGRTS/BRIEF.HTM   (6183 words)

  
 Kinyarwanda Bibles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Kinyarwanda is one of the languages of Rwanda (Africa).
Kinyarwanda New Testament on audio cassette from Faith Comes By Hearing.
The "JESUS" Film, based on the Gospel of Luke, has been translated into Kinyarwanda.
www.ethnicharvest.org /bibles/kinyarwanda.htm   (83 words)

  
 Se habla open source? - Hardware - News - ZDNet Asia
OpenOffice and the KDE interface for Linux into languages ranging from Azerbaijani to Xhosa.
Mozilla Web browser is available in 59 languages, and support for dozens more is on the way.
Even though many of the language groups normally would be too rare to justify commercial software work, Microsoft is sharing the load with university and government programmers in India working under the
www.zdnetasia.com /news/hardware/0,39042972,39168526,00.htm   (1628 words)

  
 Bible Network News :: Africa - Translation abandoned amid bloodshed launched 10 years later   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
At that time, revisions of the Common Language Kinyarwanda New Testament, which had been in print since the mid-1980s, were coming to an end.
The team which was working on the Common Language Kinyarwanda Old Testament had almost completed its work, too.
Then, with ethnic conflict raging and the streets of Kigali literally running with blood, the revisers and translators were forced to abandon their work as the city was evacuated.
www.biblenetworknews.com /africa/021705_rwanda.html   (655 words)

  
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 Kinyarwanda dictionary
Kinyarwanda is Africa's largest Bantu mother tongue, spoken by approximately 10 million people in Rwanda, and surrounding countries.
Ntihabose has compiled a Swedish-Kinyarwanda dictionary - the first of its kind.
Dept of Oriental and African Languages, Göteborg University.
www.african.gu.se /research/rwanda.html   (79 words)

  
 Latest News #302 – Rwanda
Young men reading the Common Language Interconfessional Kinyarwanda Bible at its launch on January 23, 2005, at the Nyamirambo Regional Stadium in Kigali, Rwanda.
RWANDA —"I am overjoyed; this is a time for celebration," proclaimed the Rev Anasthase Kajugiro, General Secretary of the Bible Society in Rwanda, at the launch of the Kinyarwanda Common Language Bible.
The Rev Anasthase Kajugiro, General Secretary of the Bible Society in Rwanda, speaking at the launch of the Common Language Interconfessional Kinyarwanda Bible on January 23, 2005, at the Nyamirambo Regional Stadium in Kigali.
www.biblesociety.org /latestnews/latest302-rwanda.html   (663 words)

  
 Kinyarwanda Poetry Translation - Job # 134858 - ProZ.com
Jobs listed in these pages have been posted by outsourcers seeking quotes from language professionals.
We are looking for translators of the Kinyarwanda language.
the project would translation of Kinyarwanda poetry into English.
www.proz.com /job/134858   (145 words)

  
 Wayne Dyer | Cover Story Article |ImmaculĂ©e Ilibigiza 'Clean Your Heart and Let Love Be There'
Every time I can’t understand anything she says to me, I always tell ImmaculĂ©e, “Come on, don’t speak Kinyarwanda to me,” which is her native language.
You actually went into the future almost knowing that you had to learn the English language because you were going to be doing interviews such as this.
You were going to be telling people all over the world in a language that you didn’t even speak yet.
www.healthywealthynwise.com /article.asp?Article=5033   (3772 words)

  
 Kinyarwanda to English translation from thebigword
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 Foreign Language Dictionaries   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
A Grammar of the Ancient Dialect of the Kannada Language
Dictionary of the Turkic Languages: English: Azerbaijani, Kazakh, Kyrgyz,Tatar, Turkish, Turkmen, Uighur, Uzbek
A relational grammar of Kinyarwanda (University of California publications in linguistics ; v.
www.royfc.com /books/aisle6k.html   (217 words)

  
 Kinyarwanda and Rwanda Links
("From the Heart" in Kinyarwanda), is an association of women working to rebuild their lives and their country.
BENIMPUHWE, a partner organization in Rwanda of the international women's organizatin MADRE,is constructing a new village on the scorched earth of the genocide and built 180 houses, for mostly women-headed families made homeless by massacres of 1994.
Investing money in activities that use their skills, such as craftwork, sewing and baking, the women repay the loans at a low rate of interest over a period of 12 months.
www.preventgenocide.org /rw/links.htm   (913 words)

  
 Kinyarwanda and French Books on Genocide -- Prevent Genocide International
All of the 11 songs have traditional origins and deal with traditional themes of the Rwandan people, and all are sung in her native Rwanda language, Kinyarwanda.
The songs transport the listener to Rwanda, and to the lives of its people (Hutu, Tutsi, and Twa).
Kayirebwa also captures joyful moments, in songs such as "Umunezero." This CD is a must for anyone wanting to fill out their world music collection.
www.preventgenocide.org /rw/edu/biblio   (2798 words)

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