Kuba language

{{Short description|Language}}

{{distinguish|Bushong language}}

{{Infobox language

|name=Kuba

|nativename=Likuba

|region=

|states=Republic of the Congo

|speakers={{sigfig|53000|2}}

|date=2018

|ref=e25

|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 spoken on the right bank of the Congo River in the 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),{{cite book |editor1-last=Nurse |editor1-first=Derek |editor2-last=Philippson |editor2-first=Gérard |title=The Bantu languages |date=2003 |publisher=Routledge |location=London |isbn=9780700711345}} it belongs with the Bangi–Ntomba group, C.30.