Kuba | |
Nativename: | Likuba |
States: | Democratic Republic of the Congo |
Date: | 2000 |
Ref: | e18 |
Familycolor: | Niger-Congo |
Fam2: | Atlantic–Congo |
Fam3: | Volta-Congo |
Fam4: | Benue–Congo |
Fam5: | Bantoid |
Fam6: | Southern Bantoid |
Fam7: | Bantu (Zone C) |
Fam8: | Bangi–Ntomba (C.30, traditionally C.20 Mboshi) |
Fam9: | Bangi–Moi |
Iso3: | kxx |
Glotto: | liku1242 |
Glottorefname: | Likuba |
Guthrie: | C.27 |
Kuba (Likuba, Kyba) is a Bantu language of Kasai, Democratic Republic of Congo.
Ethnologue reports that it is mutually intelligible with Kwala, in the C.20 group where it was classified by Guthrie 1948. However, Nurse & Philippson (2003),[1] it belongs with the Bangi–Ntomba group, C.30.