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Rwandophones

Rwandophones is the plural of Rwandophone.

Meaning of Rwandophone

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

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Questions about Rwandophones

What is Rwandophones the plural of?
Rwandophones is the plural of Rwandophone.

Words near Rwandophones in the dictionary

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

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