| Shira | |
| Familycolor: | Niger-Congo |
| Fam2: | Atlantic–Congo |
| Fam3: | Benue–Congo |
| Fam4: | Southern Bantoid |
| Fam5: | Bantu (Zone B.40) |
| Glotto: | sira1268 |
| Glottoname: | Sira (B.40) |
The Sira languages are a clade of Bantu languages coded Zone B.40 in Guthrie's classification. According to Nurse & Philippson (2003),[1] together with a couple languages from H10, they form a valid node. They are:
(B.40) Punu, Bwisi, Varama, Vungu, Shira–Bwali, Sangu, Lumbu, (H.10) Vili, Kunyi.
Maho (2009) adds Ngubi.
In addition, the unclassified Pygmy language Rimba (Irimba) is generally assumed to be a dialect of Punu.