Shi language

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

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. Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online