Shubi is a Bantu language spoken in 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.
ISO 639-3 code
suj
family
Bantu languages, Benue–Congo languages, Bantoid languages, Atlantic–Congo languages
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