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Kuba
Likuba
Native toDemocratic Republic of the Congo
Native speakers
30,000 (2000)[1]
Language family
Niger–Congo?
  • Atlantic–Congo
    • Volta-Congo
      • Benue–Congo
        • Bantoid
          • Southern Bantoid
            • Bantu (Zone C)
              • Bangi–Ntomba (C.30,
                traditionally C.20 Mboshi)
                • Bangi–Moi
                  • Kuba
Language codes
ISO 639-3kxx
Glottologliku1242
Guthrie code
C.27[2]

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),[3] it belongs with the Bangi–Ntomba group, C.30.

  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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