Shi language

Shi
	Kishi
Native to	Democratic Republic of Congo
Region	Sud-Kivu Province
Native speakers	(660,000 cited 1991)[1]
Language family	Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Bantoid Bantu Northeast Bantu Great Lakes Bantu Shi–Havu Shi; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Either:; shr – Shi; nyg – Nyindu
Glottolog	shii1238 Shi[2]; nyin1248 Nyindu[3]
Guthrie code	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, eds. (2017). "Shi". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Nyindu". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
1 2 Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online

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[e18-1] Shi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Nyindu at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)

[Glottolog-2] Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Shi". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

[Glottolog2-3] Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Nyindu". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

[Guthrie-4] 1 2 Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online