Wushi language

Wushi
Babessi
Native to Cameroon, Nigeria?
Native speakers
25,000 in Cameroon (2008)[1]
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. 1 2 Wushi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Nshi (?) at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Wushi". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Nshi". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.


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