Kinyarwanda is the official language of Rwanda, while French, English, and Swahili are all commonly spoken.

Rwandans generally speak languages other than their native Kinyarwanda, which is one of the Things About Rwanda You Should Know. The older generations speak French, the colonial language, while English and Swahili are newcomers to the scene. As a result, Rwanda is becoming a very diversified country, with a lot of language variety, as a result of having a lot of immigrants from across the area.

Kinyarwanda is the official language of Rwanda, as well as a dialect of the Rwanda-Rundi language spoken in Rwanda, the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, and parts of southern Uganda (where it is known as Rufumbira). The language is practically ubiquitous across Rwanda, where the population as of October 29, 2021, extrapolated from United Nations statistics, was estimated at 13,375,738. Burundi's official language is the mutually intelligible Kirundi dialect. Kinyabwisha and Kinyamulenge are mutually intelligible languages spoken in the neighboring DR Congo's North and South Kivu provinces. The Rwandan Assembly of Language and Culture (RALC) was founded in 2010 to promote and maintain Kinyarwanda. The organization has tried linguistic modifications, but they have been greeted with opposition owing to the top-down and political nature of the revisions.