Shi language
| Shi | |
|---|---|
| Kishi | |
| Native to | Democratic Republic of Congo |
| Region | Sud-Kivu Province |
Native speakers | (660,000 cited 1991)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
Either:shr – Shinyg – 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) - ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Shi". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Nyindu". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- 1 2 Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
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