Hunde language

{{Short description|Language}}

{{Use British English|date=November 2017}}{{Infobox language

| name = Hunde

| nativename = Kihunde

| states = Democratic Republic of Congo

| region =

| ethnicity = Hunde people

| speakers = 200,000

| date = 1980

| ref = e25

| familycolor = Niger-Congo

| fam2 = Atlantic–Congo

| fam3 = Benue–Congo

| fam4 = Bantoid

| fam5 = Bantu

| fam6 = Northeast Bantu

| fam7 = Great Lakes Bantu

| fam8 = Shi–Havu

| iso3 = hke

| guthrie = JD.51

| glotto = hund1239

| glottorefname = Hunde

}}

Hunde (Kihunde; also Luhunde, Kobi, Rukobi) is a Great Lakes Bantu language spoken by the Hunde people or Bahunde in Nord-Kivu province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is primarily spoken in the territories of Masisi, Walikale, Nyiragongo, Rutshuru and Kalahe.