Tobo-Kube language

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Kube (Hube) and Tobo, also Mongi, are a Papuan language spoken in Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea. They are mutually intelligible and 95% lexicostatistically cognate.[2] Dialects of Kube include Kurungtufu and Yoangen (Yoanggeng).

Kube-Tobo
Native toPapua New Guinea
RegionHuon Peninsula, Morobe Province
Native speakers
(7,500 Kube (2000 census), 2,230 Tobo cited 1980 census)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3Either:
kgf – Kube
tbv – Tobo
Glottologkube1244

The Kube alphabet includes the letter Q with hook tail, ⟨Ɋ ɋ⟩.[3]

Phonology

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Vowels (orthographic)

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Front Central Back
High i u
Mid e é o
Low a

Consonants (orthographic)

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Labial Alveolar Palatal Velar Labiovelar Glottal
Voiceless plosive p t k q -c
Voiced plosive b d g ɋ
Nasal m n
Voiceless affricate z
Voiced affricate ʒ
Voiceless fricative f s h
Voiced trill r
Lateral approximant l
Central approximant y w

References

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  1. ^ Kube at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
    Tobo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ Hammarström (2015) Ethnologue 16/17/18th editions: a comprehensive review: online appendices
  3. ^ Sisipac Ac Ɋelia (KGF), 2012, Wycliffe Bible Translators on Bible.com