Shi language
| Shi | |
|---|---|
| Kishi | |
| Native to | Democratic Republic of Congo |
| Region | Sud-Kivu Province |
Native speakers | 660,000 (1991)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
Either: shr – Shi nyg – Nyindu |
| Glottolog |
shii1238 (Shi)[2]nyin1248 (Nyindu)[3] |
JD.53,501[4] | |
Shi, or Nyabungu, is a Bantu language of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
The Nyindu variety is heavily influenced by Lega, and speakers consider it a dialect of Lega rather than Shi, as Shi speakers see it. Maho (2009) leaves it unclassified as JD.501.[4]
References
- ↑ Shi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Nyindu at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) - ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Shi". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Nyindu". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online