A Kinyarwnda-English and Eglish-Kinyarwanda Dictionary

by: Emmanuel Habumuremyi, Claudine Uwamahoro

Since 1994, Rwanda is a state with three official languages: Kinyarwanda (a national language
spoken by all Rwandans), French and English. As a trilingual state, Rwanda needs good linguistic
tools to use while handling official documents, rendering contents from one language to another,
preparing teaching materials, and sharing experiences with other communities. At the time being, a
Kinyarwanda-Kinyarwanda and a Kinyarwanda-French Dictionaries have been compiled by the
Rwandan National Institute of Scientific Research (IRST). However, only one attempt to compile a
Kinyarwanda-English was carried out by Geoffrey Rugege (PhD), a Professor of Linguistics at
Grambling University, when he published a Kinyarwanda-English in 2005.