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Rwandophone

Rwandophone adjective: having Kinyarwanda as one’s mother tongue; Kinyarwanda-speaking.

Adjective

Rwandophone (not comparable)

  1. Having Kinyarwanda as one’s mother tongue; Kinyarwanda-speaking.
    • 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, Zachariah Cherian Mampilly, chapter 6, in Rebel Rulers: Insurgent Governance and Civilian Life during War, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, page 177

Noun

Rwandophone (plural Rwandophones)

  1. A person whose mother tongue is Kinyarwanda.
    • 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.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

Forms of Rwandophone

pluralRwandophones

Questions about Rwandophone

What does Rwandophone mean?
Rwandophone means having Kinyarwanda as one’s mother tongue; Kinyarwanda-speaking.
What part of speech is Rwandophone?
Rwandophone can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near Rwandophone in the dictionary

  1. Rwanda-Rundi
  2. Rwandan
  3. Rwandanness
  4. Rwandans
  5. Rwandese
  6. Rwandophone
  7. Rwandophones
  8. RWAs
  9. RWB
  10. RWC
  11. RWCs

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