Tobo-Kube language

{{Short description|Papuan language}}

{{Infobox language

|name = 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.Hammarström (2015) Ethnologue 16/17/18th editions: a comprehensive review: online appendices Dialects of Kube include Kurungtufu and Yoangen (Yoanggeng).

The Kube alphabet includes the letter Q with hook tail, {{angbr|Ɋ ɋ}}.[https://www.bible.com/versions/1301 Sisipac Ac Ɋelia (KGF)], 2012, Wycliffe Bible Translators on Bible.com