Wushi language

Wushi
Babessi
Native to	Cameroon, Nigeria?
Native speakers	25,000 in Cameroon (2008)^[1]
Language family	Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Southern Bantoid Grassfields Ring North Wushi
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Either: `bse` – Wushi `nsc` – Nshi (?)
Glottolog	`wush1238` (Wushi)^[2] `nshi1235` (Nshi (unattested))^[3]

Wushi (Babessi) is a Grassfields Bantu language of Cameroon.

It might be the same language as adjacent, unattested Nshi across the border in Nigeria.^[1]

References

1 2 Wushi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Nshi (?) at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Wushi". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Nshi". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

Grassfields Bantu languages

Ring
languages

Central	Babanki Bum Kom Kuk Kung Mmen Oku

Northern	Bamunka Kenswei Nsei Vengo Wushi

Western	Aghem Isu Laimbue Weh Zhoa

Other	Nso

Eastern
Grassfields

Bamileke

Western	Megaka Ngiemboon Ngombale Ngomba Ngwe Yemba

Eastern	Fe’fe’ Ghomálá’ Kwa’ Nda’nda’ Medumba

Other

Viti

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