| Kube-Tobo | |
| States: | Papua New Guinea |
| Region: | Huon Peninsula, Morobe Province |
| Speakers: | 7,500 Kube (2000 census), 2,230 Tobo |
| Date: | 1980 census |
| Ref: | e18 |
| Familycolor: | Papuan |
| Fam1: | Trans–New Guinea |
| Fam2: | Finisterre–Huon |
| Fam3: | Huon |
| Fam4: | Eastern Huon |
| Lc1: | kgf |
| Ld1: | Kube |
| Lc2: | tbv |
| Ld2: | Tobo |
| Glotto: | kube1244 |
| Glottorefname: | Kulungtfu-Yuanggeng-Tobo |
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.[1] Dialects of Kube include Kurungtufu and Yoangen (Yoanggeng).
The Kube alphabet includes the letter Q with hook tail, (Ɋ ɋ).[2]
| Front | Central | Back | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | i | u | ||
| Mid | e | é | o | |
| Low | a |
| 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 |