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Kirundi Expressions — Revised Edition (after Firmin Rodegem, 1956)
A 1956 classic, brought up to date. The Kirundi expressions gathered by Fr. Firmin Rodegem, revised in Gitega in 2021 for today's readers.
A book that survives three generations rarely stays exactly the same — and that's how it should be. « Expressions kirundi » picks up Fr. Firmin Rodegem's pioneering work, first published in 1956 as « Expressions rundi », and carries it through a full revision in Gitega in June 2021.
What a language keeps, what it lets slip away
A collection like this is nothing like a cold dictionary: it's the turns of phrase, the images, the ways of saying things that give Kirundi its own colour — the kind you learn by listening, rarely from a classroom textbook. Putting them on paper is what keeps them from disappearing with the people who carried them.
A valuable tool for anyone learning Kirundi seriously, for a teacher looking for living examples, or for a diaspora child wanting to reconnect with their parents' language beyond everyday words.
Light, inexpensive, essential — add it to your order now.
- Origin: Expressions rundi, Fr. Firmin Rodegem, 1956
- Edition: revised, Gitega, June 2021
- Language: French / Kirundi
- Pages: 65
- Weight: 88 g
