Shi language

Shi
Kishi
Native to Democratic Republic of Congo
Region Sud-Kivu Province
Native speakers
 unknown (660,000 cited 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

  1. ↑ Shi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Nyindu at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Shi". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  3. ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Nyindu". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  4. 1 2 Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online


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