Ruund language

See also: Lunda language

Ruund
Chiluwunda
Native to	Democratic Republic of the Congo, Angola
Region	Copperbelt
Native speakers	250,000 (2000)^[1]
Language family	Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Bantoid Bantu (Zone L) Lunda (L.50) Ruund
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`rnd`
Glottolog	`ruun1238`^[2]
Guthrie code	`L.53`^[3]

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.^[4]

Languages of Angola

Official	Portuguese

National	Ju Kimbundu Kongo Kung Kwadi Lunda Ngangela Oshiwambo Kwanyama Ndonga Portuguese Umbundu Yauma

Native	Bolo Diriku Holu Ibinda Khwe Kilari Kisikongo Kung-Ekoka Kwadi Kwangali Lingala Lucazi Luimbi Lunda Luvale Luyana Maligo Mashi Mbangala Mbukushu Mbwela Ndombe Ngandyera Nkangala Nkumbi Nyaneka Nyemba Nyengo !O!ung Ruund Sama Songo Umbundu Yaka Yauma Yombe Zemba

References

↑ Ruund at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Ruund". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
↑ Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
↑ Hyman, Larry. "Segmental Phonology" (PDF). p. 8. Retrieved 22 March 2014.