Tobo-Kube language

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

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]

  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