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).
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 |
The Kube alphabet includes the letter Q with hook tail, ⟨Ɋ ɋ⟩.[3]
Phonology
editVowels (orthographic)
editFront | Central | Back | |
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High | i | u | |
Mid | e | é | o |
Low | a |
Consonants (orthographic)
editLabial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Labiovelar | Glottal | |
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Voiceless plosive | p | t | k | q | -c | |
Voiced plosive | b | d | g | ɋ | ||
Nasal | m | n | -ŋ | |||
Voiceless affricate | z | |||||
Voiced affricate | ʒ | |||||
Voiceless fricative | f | s | h | |||
Voiced trill | r | |||||
Lateral approximant | l | |||||
Central approximant | y | w |
References
edit- ^ Kube at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
Tobo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required) - ^ Hammarström (2015) Ethnologue 16/17/18th editions: a comprehensive review: online appendices
- ^ Sisipac Ac Ɋelia (KGF), 2012, Wycliffe Bible Translators on Bible.com