Tobo-Kube language

Kube-Tobo
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.^[2] Dialects of Kube include Kurungtufu and Yoangen (Yoanggeng).

The Kube alphabet includes the letter Q with hook tail, ⟨Ɋ ɋ⟩.^[3]

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	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

^ 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