Native speakers (200,000 cited 1980) Glottolog hund1239 | ISO 639-3 hke Guthrie code JD.51 | |
Native to Democratic Republic of Congo Language family Niger–Congo
Atlantic–Congo
Benue–Congo
Bantoid
Bantu
Northeast Bantu
Great Lakes Bantu
Shi–Havu
Hunde | ||
The Hunde are an ethnolinguistic group of about 200,000 people (as of 1980) located in the eastern region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The Hunde live in the province of Nord-Kivu and the regions of Masisi and Rutshuru. The language of the Hunde is Kihunde, and alternate names are Kobi and Rukobi. The history of the Hunde since national independence has been bound up with that of the Kinyarwanda-speaking population in the region, including the recent First and Second Congo Wars.
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Hunde language Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA