Kube (Hube) and Tobo, also ''Mongi'', are a
Papuan language
The Papuan languages are the non-Austronesian languages spoken on the western Pacific island of New Guinea, as well as neighbouring islands in Indonesia, Solomon Islands, and East Timor. It is a strictly geographical grouping, and does not imply a ...
spoken in
Morobe Province
Morobe is a province on the northern coast of Papua New Guinea. The provincial capital and largest city is Lae. The province covers 33,705 km2, with a population of 674,810 (2011 census), and since the division of Southern Highlands Province ...
,
Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea, officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is an island country in Oceania that comprises the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and offshore islands in Melanesia, a region of the southwestern Pacific Ocean n ...
. 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
Q with hook tail (majuscule: Ɋ, minuscule: ɋ) is a letter of the extended Latin alphabet. It was introduced by Lutheran missionaries in Papua New Guinea for use in the Numanggang language in the 1930s or 1940s. In 2002, it was decided to discont ...
, .
Sisipac Ac Ɋelia (KGF)
2012, Wycliffe Bible Translators on Bible.com
Phonology
Vowels
Consonants
References
* Lee, Yongseop. (1993). Kube grammar essentials. Ms. 168pp.
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Languages of Morobe Province
Huon languages
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