Shubi is a Bantu language spoken by the Shubi people in north-western Tanzania.
It may use labiodental plosives , (sometimes written ȹ, ȸ) as phonemes, rather than as allophones of . Peter Ladefoged wrote:
Vocabulary Many Bantu languages have a large set of lexical items for expressing time-frames by days (similar to English's yesterday, today, tomorrow, day after tomorrow). However, Shubi has a small set compared to other Bantu languages:
+ Shubi time-frame words Shubi English gloss yesterday today tomorrow the following day in the past
References
External links Short article on Shubi proverbs