Shira language

Shira
Eshira
Native to Gabon
Ethnicity Shira people
Native speakers
39,000  (2000)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 swj
Glottolog sira1266[2]
B.41,411[3]

Shira is a Bantu language of Gabon.

Maho (2009) considers Bwali to be a closely related language. It does not have an ISO code.

References

  1. Shira at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Sira". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  3. Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online