Shubi language

Shubi
Region	Kagera Region in Tanzania
Ethnicity	Shubi people
Native speakers	(153,000 cited 1987)
Language family	Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Bantoid Bantu Northeast Bantu Great Lakes Bantu Ruanda-Rundi Shubi
Language codes
ISO 639-3
Glottolog	`shub1238`
Guthrie code	`JD.64`
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Shubi (Subi) 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: