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Ethnologue > Web version > Country index > Pacific > Papua New Guinea > Kubo

Kubo

A language of Papua New Guinea

ISO 639-3jko

Population  1,000.
Region  Western Province, Lake Murray District, Upper Strickland Census District, north half, east of Strickland River, north of the Samo.
Language map  Papua New Guinea, Map 8, reference number 388
Dialects  Related to Samo [smq], Gobasi [goi].
Classification  Trans-New Guinea, East Strickland
Language development  Literacy rate in L1: 10%–15%. Literacy rate in L2: 15%–20%. 1 vernacular primary school. Bible portions: 1996–1999.
Writing system  Latin script.
Comments  Swidden agriculturalists.