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 family	Trans–New Guinea Finisterre–Huon Huon Eastern Huon Kube-Tobo
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. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Kube (Papua New Guinea)". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
3. Hammarström (2015) Ethnologue 16/17/18th editions: a comprehensive review: online appendices