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Kwanja [KNP] (Cameroon). Weber & Weber (1987) and Blench (1993) report a
labiodental flap in Kwanja. Weber & Weber state that it is pronounced with some
nasalization. They note that it only occurs in ideophones and is very rare. They give the
following example: JA( JA( JA( JA( LL L L MK MK MK MK ‘Rabbit took off out of sight!’
Samba Daka [CCG] (Nigeria). Boyd (1994: 47, 64, 154, 162) and Cloarec-Heiss
(1998) report a labial flap in Samba Daka. Boyd attests it in the words L==J L==J ‘hit’ and LA( LA( LA( LA(
‘split’.
Tep (Nigeria). Bruce Connell (per. comm.) reports a labial flap in Tep. Grimes
(1996) considers Tep to be a dialect of Mambila [MZK], but Connell considers Tep to be
a separate language. He attests it in the lexical item for ‘spiggot used specifically to tap
palm wine’.
Manyika [MXC; Guthrie zone S] (Zimbabwe, Mozambique). Hannan (1974: 728)
reports a labial flap in the ideophone L L L L ‘of disappearing into thick grass or forest’ in
Manyika.
Ndau [NDC; Guthrie zone S] (Zimbabwe). Doke (1931: 224) reports a labial flap
in Ndau. He describes the sound as either “infra-labial” (i.e. bilabial) or “denti-labial”
(i.e. labiodental). He attests it in the word KJ KJ ELK ELK ‘thud’. It is only found in ideophones.
Nyanja [NYJ; Guthrie zone N] (Malawi). Scott (1929: 590, 598) reports a
labiodental flap in Nyanja. He attests it in the words L= L= ‘beating, hitting’ and ML ML ML ML
‘disappearing into’, which both appear to be ideophones.
Shona [SHD; Guthrie zone S] (Zimbabwe). Doke (1931: 224) reports a labial flap
in the Karanga, Zezuru, and Korekore dialects of Shona. It has the same articulation as in
Ndau. The sound is attested only in ideophones. As mentioned previously, in one
ideophone in the Zezuru dialect, the sound is voiceless, but in fact, the entire word is
voiceless: L&=& L&=& ‘of report of a gun’. He attests it in the following words: LE LE ‘of hollow thud’
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(Korekore), KJELE KJELE KJELE KJELE ‘to thud on something hollow’ (Zezuru, Korekore), LL LL LL LL ‘of striking on