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Kuba language

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Native speakers
  
30,000 (2000)

Glottolog
  
liku1242

ISO 639-3
  
kxx

Guthrie code
  
C.27

Native to
  
Democratic Republic of the Congo

Language family
  
Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Bantoid Bantu (Zone C) Bangi–Ntomba (C.30, traditionally C.20 Mboshi) Bangi–Moi Kuba

Kuba (Likuba, Kyba) is a Bantu language of Kasai, Democratic Republic of Congo.

Map of Cuba

Ethnologue reports that it is mutually intelligible with Kwala, in the C.20 group where it was classified by Guthrie 1948. However, Nurse & Philippson (2003), it belongs with the Bangi–Ntomba group, C.30.

References

Kuba language Wikipedia