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Kuba
Likuba
Native toDemocratic Republic of the——Congo
Native speakers
30,000 (2000)
Language codes
ISO 639-3kxx
Glottologliku1242
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), it belongs with the Bangi–Ntomba group, "C."30.

References

  1. ^ Kuba at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
  3. ^ Nurse, Derek; Philippson, Gérard, eds. (2003). The Bantu languages. London: Routledge. ISBN 9780700711345.


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