Shubi language

Shubi language

Infobox Language
familycolor=Niger-Congo
name=Shubi
region=Kagera Region in Tanzania
speakers=150,000
fam2=Atlantic-Congo
fam3=Volta-Congo
fam4=Benue-Congo
fam5=Bantoid
fam6=Southern
fam7=Narrow Bantu
fam8=Central
fam9=J
iso3=suj

Shubi is a Bantu language spoken in Tanzania. It is may use the labiodental plosive as a phoneme, rather than as an allophone of the bilabial plosive. 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. [ [http://linguistlist.org/issues/5/5-219.html LINGUIST List 5.219: Labiodental nasals ] ]

Notes

External links

* [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=suj Ethnologue entry on Shubi]
* [http://www.language-museum.com/s/shubi.htm Sample of Shubi writing]


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