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Burundi.

Burundi; a country in Africa, a landlocked state in the African Great Lakes region, with Gitega as its capital.

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name/¹bʉˈrʉn.di/[bʉˈɾʉ̀n.dɪ]
  1. Burundi; a country in Africa, a landlocked state in the African Great Lakes region, with Gitega as its capital.

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Where this word comes from

Internationalism, based on Rwanda-Rundi Burundi (“Burundi”), a class 14 proper noun in the Kirundi variety of Rwanda-Rundi. The name is conventionally analysed as the class-14 prefix bu- and the stem -rundi, approximately “land of the Rundi people”; the deeper origin of the stem is uncertain. Parallel international adaptations include Norwegian Nynorsk Burundi, Danish Burundi, Swedish Burundi, German Burundi, Dutch Burundi and English Burundi.

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