Rwandophone
English
Adjective
Rwandophone (not comparable)
- Having Kinyarwanda as one’s mother tongue; Kinyarwanda-speaking.
- 2011, Zachariah Cherian Mampilly, Rebel Rulers: Insurgent Governance and Civilian Life during War, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, Chapter 6, p. 177,
- 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, Rebel Rulers: Insurgent Governance and Civilian Life during War, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, Chapter 6, p. 177,
Noun
Rwandophone (plural Rwandophones)
- A person whose mother tongue is Kinyarwanda.
- 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.
- 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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