Kuba (Likuba, Kyba) is a
Bantu language
The Bantu languages (English: , Proto-Bantu: *bantʊ̀) are a large family of languages spoken by the Bantu people of Central, Southern, Eastern africa and Southeast Africa. They form the largest branch of the Southern Bantoid languages.
T ...
of
Kasai,
Democratic Republic of Congo
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''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
Bangi-Ntomba languages
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