Kuba language

Not to be confused with Bushong language.

Kuba (Likuba, Kyba) is a Bantu language spoken on the right bank of the Congo River in the Republic of Congo.

Kuba
Likuba
Native to	Republic of the Congo
Native speakers	53,000 (2018)[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 639-3	kxx
Glottolog	liku1242
Guthrie code	C.27[2]

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.