Kube-Tobo | |
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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
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | Either:kgf – Kubetbv – 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]