Tobo-Kube language

Kube-Tobo
Native to Papua New Guinea
Region Huon Peninsula, Morobe Province
Native speakers
 (7,500 Kube (2000 census), 2,230 Tobo cited 1980 census)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 Either:
kgf – Kube
tbv – Tobo
Glottolog kube1244[2]

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.[3] Dialects of Kube are Kurungtufu, Yoangen (Yoanggeng).

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

Phonology

Vowels (orthographic)

Front Central Back
High i u
Mid e é o
Low a

Consonants (orthographic)

Labial Alveolar Palatal Velar Labiovelar Glottal
Voiceless plosive p t k q -c
Voiced plosive b d g q
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

  1. ↑ Kube at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Tobo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Kube (Papua New Guinea)". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. ↑ Hammarström (2015) Ethnologue 16/17/18th editions: a comprehensive review: online appendices


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