| Shubi | |
|---|---|
| Region | Kagera Region in Tanzania |
| Ethnicity | Shubi people |
| Native speakers | (153,000 cited 1987) |
| Language family | Niger–Congo? |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | suj |
| Glottolog | shub1238 |
| Guthrie code | JD.64 |
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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.
References
- Shubi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
- LINGUIST List 5.219: Labiodental nasals
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