Shubi

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Shubi is a Bantu language spoken in by the Shubi people in north-western Tanzania. It is 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.
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[en] Shubi language

Language type : Living

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Following BCP 47 the recommended tag for this language is suj.

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ISO 639 Codes

ISO 639-3 : suj

Linked Data URIs

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Authority documentation for ISO 639 identifier: suj

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