Shubi | |
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Region | Kagera Region in Tanzania |
Ethnicity | Shubi people |
Native speakers | (153,000 cited 1987) [1] |
Niger–Congo?
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 |
suj |
Glottolog |
shub1238 |
JD.64
[2] | |
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:
Shubi | |
---|---|
Region | Kagera Region in Tanzania |
Ethnicity | Shubi people |
Native speakers | (153,000 cited 1987) [1] |
Niger–Congo?
| |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 |
suj |
Glottolog |
shub1238 |
JD.64
[2] | |
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: