| 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 – Kubetbv – Tobo |
| Glottolog | kube1244 |
Kube (Hube) andTobo, alsoMongi, are aPapuan language spoken inMorobe Province,Papua New Guinea. They are mutually intelligible and 95% lexicostatistically cognate.[2] Dialects of Kube includeKurungtufu andYoangen (Yoanggeng).
The Kube alphabet includes the letterQ with hook tail,⟨Ɋ ɋ⟩.[3]
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| High | i | u | |
| Mid | e | ə | o |
| Low | a |
| Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Labiovelar | Glottal | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Voiceless plosive | p | t | k | k͡p | ʔ | |
| Voiced plosive | b | d | ɡ | ɡ͡b | ||
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||
| Voiceless affricate | t͡s | |||||
| Voiced affricate | d͡z | |||||
| Fricative | f | s | h | |||
| Trill | r | |||||
| Lateral | l | |||||
| Approximant | j | w |
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