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Rwandophone

adj · noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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1

adj

Meaning 1

Having Kinyarwanda as one’s mother tongue; Kinyarwanda-speaking.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: not-comparable

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noun

Meaning 2

A person whose mother tongue is Kinyarwanda.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • 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.

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