| Kube-Tobo | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Papua New Guinea |
| Region | Huon Peninsula, Morobe Province |
Native speakers | (7,500 Kube (2000 census), 2,230 Tobo cited 1980 census) [1] |
Trans–New Guinea
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | Either: kgf – Kube tbv – Tobo |
| Glottolog | kube1244 |
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).
The Kube alphabet includes the letter Q with hook tail, ⟨Ɋ ɋ⟩. [3]
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| High | i | u | |
| Mid | e | é | o |
| Low | a |
| Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Labiovelar | Glottal | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Voiceless plosive | p | t | k | q | -c | |
| Voiced plosive | b | d | g | ɋ | ||
| Nasal | m | n | -ŋ | |||
| Voiceless affricate | z | |||||
| Voiced affricate | ʒ | |||||
| Voiceless fricative | f | s | h | |||
| Voiced trill | r | |||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||
| Central approximant | y | w |
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