Rwandophone

1. not comparableHaving Kinyarwanda as one’s mother tongue; Kinyarwanda-speaking.

   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.

   2011, Zachariah Cherian Mampilly, chapter 6, in Rebel Rulers: Insurgent Governance and Civilian Life during War, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, page 177

plural Rwandophones

1. A person whose mother tongue is Kinyarwanda.

   1 more example

   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.