Kuba language
Kuba | |
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Likuba | |
Native to | Democratic Republic of the Congo |
Native speakers | 30,000 (2000)[1] |
Niger–Congo
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 |
kxx |
Glottolog |
liku1242 [2] |
C.27 [3] |
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
- ↑ Kuba at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Likuba". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
- Nurse & Philippson (2003), The Bantu Languages.
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Note: The Guthrie classification is geographic and its groupings do not imply a relationship between the languages within them. |
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