Kuba (Likuba, Kyba) is a
Bantu language
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spoken on the right bank of the
Congo River
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in the
Republic of Congo
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.
''Ethnologue'' reports that it is
mutually intelligible
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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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