Resource: iso639-3/suj

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rdf:type	lvont:Language
rdfs:comment	Shubi is a Bantu language spoken in by the Shubi people in north-western Tanzania. It is may use labiodental plosives , (sometimes written ) as phonemes, rather than as allophones of . 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. ('en' language string)
rdfs:label	Shubi language ('en' language string)
rdfs:label	Shubi ('en' language string)
rdfs:seeAlso	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shubi_language
rdfs:seeAlso	http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=suj
rdfs:seeAlso	http://www.llmap.org/languages/suj.html
owl:sameAs	http://dbpedia.org/resource/Shubi_language
owl:sameAs	http://www.mpii.de/yago/resource/Shubi_language
lvont:broader	http://dbpedia.org/resource/Ruanda-Rundi
lvont:broader	lexvo:iso639-5/bnt
lvont:broader	http://www.mpii.de/yago/resource/Ruanda-Rundi
lvont:iso639P3PCode	suj (string)
lvont:label	lexvo:term/eng/Shubi%20language
lvont:label	lexvo:term/eng/Shubi
lvont:usedIn	lexvo:iso3166/TZ
skos:prefLabel	Shubi ('en' language string)