Rwandophone

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English

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Adjective

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Rwandophone (not comparable)

  1. Having Kinyarwanda as one’s mother tongue; Kinyarwanda-speaking.
    • 2011, Zachariah Cherian Mampilly, chapter 6, in Rebel Rulers: Insurgent Governance and Civilian Life during War[1], Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, page 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.

Noun

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Rwandophone (plural Rwandophones)

  1. 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,[2]
      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.