rwandophone
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Having Kinyarwanda as one’s mother tongue; Kinyarwanda-speaking.
noun
A person whose mother tongue is Kinyarwanda.
Example Sentences
- "At the center of these debates in the Kivus was the Congolese Rwandophone community (both Hutu and Tutsi), which had long been viewed with suspicion by other eastern Congolese ethnicities."
- "2011, Christina R. Clark-Kazak, Recounting Migration: Political Narratives of Congolese Young People in Uganda, Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, Chapter 2, p. 31, In 1982-83, the Obote regime organized state repression and expulsion of Rwandophones, causing 40,000 to flee to Rwanda until the Habyarimana government closed its border."