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Tobo Kube language

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Native to
  
Glottolog
  
kube1244

Native speakers
  
(7,500 Kube (2000 census), 2,230 Tobo cited 1980 census)

Language family
  
Trans–New GuineaFinisterre–HuonHuonEastern HuonKube-Tobo

ISO 639-3
  
Either:kgf – Kubetbv – Tobo

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. Dialects of Kube are Kurungtufu, Yoangen (Yoanggeng).

The Kube alphabet includes the letter Q with hook tail, ⟨Ɋ ɋ ⟩.

References

Tobo-Kube language Wikipedia


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