Native to Papua New Guinea | Glottolog kube1244 | |
Region Huon Peninsula, Morobe Province Native speakers (7,500 Kube (2000 census), 2,230 Tobo cited 1980 census) Language family Trans–New Guinea
Finisterre–Huon
Huon
Eastern Huon
Kube-Tobo ISO 639-3 Either:
kgf – Kube
tbv – 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(Text) CC BY-SA