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