Ruund language
Bantu language spoken in DR Congo and Angola / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
See also: Lunda language
Ruund (Ruwund), also known as Northern Lunda or Uruund, is a Bantu language of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Angola. It is highly unusual among Bantu languages for allowing consonantal codas and for its reduced vowel system, in which short /e/ and /o/ have become [i] and [a] respectively, leaving only 3 short vowels.[3]
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Ruund | |
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Chiluwunda | |
Native to | Democratic Republic of the Congo, Angola |
Region | Copperbelt |
Native speakers | 250,000 (2000)[1] |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | rnd |
Glottolog | ruun1238 |
L.53 [2] |
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Another interesting feature of Ruund is that, as with the related Ciluba language, the tones of Proto-Bantu have reversed, so that High has become Low and vice versa.[4] In this language therefore the accented syllables are Low and the default tone is High.