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Shubi is a Bantu language spoken by the Shubi people in north-western Tanzania. It may use labiodental plosives /p̪/, /b̪/ (sometimes written ȹ, ȸ) as phonemes, rather than as allophones of /p, b/. Peter Ladefoged wrote:

We have heard labiodental stops made by a Shubi speaker whose teeth were sufficiently close together to allow him to make an airtight labiodental closure. For this speaker this sound was clearly in contrast with a bilabial stop; but we suspect that the majority of Shubi speakers make the contrast one of bilabial stop versus labial-labiodental affricate (i.e. bilabial stop closure followed by a labiodental fricative), rather than bilabial versus labiodental stop.[3]
Not to be confused with Subi language.
Shubi
RegionKagera Region in Tanzania
EthnicityShubi people
Native speakers
(153,000 cited 1987)[1]
Language family
Niger–Congo?
  • Atlantic–Congo
    • Volta-Congo
      • Benue–Congo
        • Bantoid
          • Bantu
            • Northeast Bantu
              • Great Lakes Bantu
                • Ruanda-Rundi
                  • Hangaza-Shubi
                    • Shubi
Language codes
ISO 639-3suj
Glottologshub1238
Guthrie code
JD.64[2]
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References


  1. Shubi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
  3. LINGUIST List 5.219: Labiodental nasals



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