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)
Language family	Trans–New Guinea Finisterre–Huon Huon Eastern Huon Kube-Tobo
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Either: kgf – Kube tbv – Tobo
Glottolog	kube1244

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 include Kurungtufu and Yoangen (Yoanggeng).

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

Phonology

Vowels

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

Consonants

	Labial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Labiovelar	Glottal
Voiceless plosive	p	t		k	k͡p	ʔ
Voiced plosive	b	d		ɡ	ɡ͡b
Nasal	m	n		ŋ
Voiceless affricate		t͡s
Voiced affricate		d͡z
Fricative	f	s				h
Trill		r
Lateral		l
Approximant			j		w

References

• Lee, Yongseop. (1993). Kube grammar essentials. Ms. 168pp.