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.[3]
References
^Shubi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
shubi, language, confused, with, subi, language, shubi, bantu, language, spoken, shubi, people, north, western, tanzania, labiodental, plosives, sometimes, written, phonemes, rather, than, allophones, peter, ladefoged, wrote, shubiregionkagera, region, tanzani. Not to be confused with Subi language Shubi is a Bantu language spoken by the Shubi people in north western Tanzania It may use labiodental plosives p b sometimes written ȹ ȸ as phonemes rather than as allophones of p b Peter Ladefoged wrote ShubiRegionKagera Region in TanzaniaEthnicityShubi peopleNative speakers 153 000 cited 1987 1 Language familyNiger Congo Atlantic CongoVolta CongoBenue CongoBantoidBantuNortheast BantuGreat Lakes BantuRuanda RundiHangaza ShubiShubiLanguage codesISO 639 3 a href https iso639 3 sil org code suj class extiw title iso639 3 suj suj a Glottologshub1238Guthrie codeJD 64 2 This article contains IPA phonetic symbols Without proper rendering support you may see question marks boxes or other symbols instead of Unicode characters For an introductory guide on IPA symbols see Help IPA 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 3 References Edit Shubi at Ethnologue 18th ed 2015 subscription required Jouni Filip Maho 2009 New Updated Guthrie List Online LINGUIST List 5 219 Labiodental nasalsExternal links EditShort article on Shubi proverbs This Bantu language related article is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Shubi language amp oldid 1086560927, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
