KINYARWANDA LEXICON

Kinyarwanda is a Bantu language spoken by up to 10 million people in Rwanda and surrounding areas. This figure also includes a world-wide diaspora.

During the mid 1990s, M.M. Ntihabose compiled the first draft for a Swedish-Kinyarwanda lexicon, the first of its kind. Ntihabose's manuscript was subsequently revised and appeared as a small in-house publication in 2003. It contains roughly 5,000 entries, and includes either direct translations to Kinyarwanda or explanatory sections in Kinyarwanda, and sometimes both. Its purpose is primarily to benefit Rwandans living in Sweden.

The lexicon seems to be continuously out-of-stock and thus distributed mainly as a PDF.