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(Text) CC BY-SA