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Shi language

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Region
  
Sud-Kivu Province

Native speakers
  
(660,000 cited 1991)

Native to
  
Democratic Republic of Congo

Language family
  
Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Bantoid Bantu Northeast Bantu Great Lakes Bantu Shi–Havu Shi

ISO 639-3
  
Either: shr – Shi nyg – Nyindu

Glottolog
  
shii1238  (Shi) nyin1248  (Nyindu)

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.

References

Shi language Wikipedia