Tobo-Kube language
# Tobo-Kube language

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. Dialects of Kube include Kurungtufu and 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 | 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 | |
