Kubokota and Luqa are very closely related although there are some grammatical differences and, I feel, more lexical differences than this word list suggests (Kubokota has a lot of borrowings from Bilua, a neighbouring Papuan language).

Orthography:

• q = voiced velar stop,
• v = voiced bilabial fricative,
• ng = velar nasal,
• ny = palatal nasal,
• g = voiced velar fricative,
• j = voiced palatal affricate.

All voiced stops and affricates are prenasalized.

Mary Raymond