Wushi language

Wushi (Babessi) is a Grassfields language of Cameroon.

Wushi
Babessi
Native toCameroon, Nigeria?
Native speakers
25,000 in Cameroon (2008)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3Either:
bse  Wushi
nsc  Nshi (?)
Glottologwush1238  Wushi[2]
nshi1235  Nshi (unattested)[3]

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

References

  1. Wushi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Nshi (?) at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Wushi". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Nshi". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.


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