Kinyarwanda

Our team is passionate about learning Kinyarwanda! We want to proclaim the Good News of Healing and Peace to all Rwandans in their heart language. This is no easy task! But, is there anything to great for God?! With His strength and blessing it will happen.

We want to encourage everyone working in Rwanda to learn Kinyarwanda. As we collect and produce resources to help in language and culture learning, we will make them available for download so you too can plunge into the world of Kinyarwanda!

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Kinyarwanda is a rich language of bantu origin. This book of phrases is to help you begin your journey into becoming a speaker of the heart language of as many as 20 million people from the Great Lakes region of Africa.

The first part contains an abbreviated pronunciation guide taken from Kinyarwanda for Beginners by Betty Ellen Cox and Cakuba Faustin. That book will give you a much deeper understanding of the nuances of this language than a simple phrase book especially in consideration of the eleven classes of words that are not dealt with here.

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These lessons have been prepared in view to a person's spending a day on each lesson. Some lessons may require more than a day's study. The lessons are only a guide to study. You will learn many words that are not included here. There are 134 lessons. Dive in and go for it!

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Pages: 1-25 26-50 51-75 76-100 101-133

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The purpose of this book is to assist the person learning Kinyarwanda. It contains the vocabulary used in the Cox Grammar and also that in the Gospel of Mark (1957 edition), plus other commonly used words. In the Kinyarwanda-English section, the numbers in parentheses following the words indicate the number of the lesson in the Cox Grammar in which the word was introduced.

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Pages 1-64 65-128

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Excerpt from first page: "The purpose of this book is to assist the person learning Kinyarwanda. It does not profess to be a dictionary, but rather a word list. It contains the vocabulary used in the Cox Grammar and also that in the Gospel of Mark (1957 edition), plus other commonly used words."

Download Kinyarwanda-English Word List

Pages 1-25 26-50 51-75 76-100 101-123

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Here are several helpful websites:

• Morgan in Africa. Great Greeting list and topical phrases in Kinyarwanda.
• Kigali Coders. They transcribed Kinyarwanda for Beginners, written by Betty Ellen Cox and Gakuba Faustin, into HTML.