title: Tobo-Kube language
text: # 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 | |
  