Rwandophone

English Adjective - Having Kinyarwanda as one’s mother tongue; Kinyarwanda-speaking. en 2011 Zachariah Cherian Mampilly Rebel Rulers: Insurgent Governance and Civilian Life during War Ithaca, NY Cornell University Press 6 177 https://books.google.ca/books?id=f8gx5tu4OsAC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false 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 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. en terms suffixed with -phone