Kinyarwanda is the national language of Rwanda, with around 12 million speakers — virtually the entire Rwandan population, making it one of the few sub-Saharan African countries with a single dominant indigenous language. It's also widely spoken in adjacent parts of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda. The US Kinyarwanda-speaking community is small but growing, with concentrations in the DC area, Texas, and parts of the Midwest. Our Kinyarwanda translation work is mostly USCIS asylum and refugee documentation, particularly tied to the long-running effects of the 1994 genocide and ongoing eastern Congo instability.