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Bantu language spoken inBurundi , and by refugees etc inRwanda ,Tanzania ,Uganda .
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Examples
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Nyanja chinga, ku - v.t. "stop, hinder, guard, compass, give another something to drink"; chingiliza, ku - v.t. "to guard by interposition"; Rundi gu-kinga "shield, protect, shelter."
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Attests as Rundi iki-rago (ibi -) "mat for sleeping"; Ngulu lago "initiation camp."
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Proto-Mashariki * - lago "mat; reeds"; PR * - lago "temporary shelter"; Swahili rago "camp"; Rundi iki-rago (ibi -) "mat for sleeping"; Nurse and Hinnebusch, Swahili and Sabaki, 666. back
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Certain it is, they pressed him to show his side, and asked if he had not received a wound there -- evidently as if the original Rundi had met with a violent death from a spear-wound in that place.
Two Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia — Volume 2 Charles Sturt 1832
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Whether it was from his entering so readily into their mirth, or from anything peculiar that struck them, the impression upon the whole of us was, that they took him to have been originally a black, in consequence of which they gave him the name of Rundi.
Two Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia — Volume 2 Charles Sturt 1832
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Whether it was from his entering so readily into their mirth, or from anything peculiar that struck them, the impression upon the whole of us was, that they took him to have been originally a black, in consequence of which they gave him the name of Rundi.
Two Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia — Complete Charles Sturt 1832
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Certain it is, they pressed him to show his side, and asked if he had not received a wound there -- evidently as if the original Rundi had met with a violent death from a spear-wound in that place.
Two Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia — Complete Charles Sturt 1832
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[Rumauntsch, see Romansch] [Runasimi, see Quechua] [Rundi, see Kirundi] Russian (Russia)
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