The Shubi (also called Washubi) are a Bantu ethnic and linguistic group based in

Kagera Region Kagera Region (''Mkoa wa Kagera'' in Swahili) is one of Tanzania's 31 administrative regions. The region covers an area of . The region is comparable in size to the combined land area of the nation state of Netherlands. Kagera Region is border ...

Tanzania Tanzania (; ), officially the United Republic of Tanzania ( sw, Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania), is a country in East Africa within the African Great Lakes region. It borders Uganda to the north; Kenya to the northeast; Comoro Islands ...

; that speak the

Shubi language 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 Peter Nielsen Ladefoged ( , ; 17 Sep ...

. In 1987 the Shubi population was estimated to number 153,000.Ethnologue report for language code:suj
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