Khehek language

Khehek is an Oceanic language spoken by approximately 1600 people on west-central Manus Island, Manus Province of Papua New Guinea. It has two dialects, Drehet and Levei, which are sometimes considered separate languages.

Khehek
Levei-Ndrehet
Native toPapua New Guinea
RegionWest-central Manus Island, Manus Province
Native speakers
(1,600 cited 1991)[1]
Austronesian
Dialects
  • Drehet (Ndrehet)
  • Levei
Language codes
ISO 639-3tlx
Glottologkheh1237[2]

Phonology

The following description is of Drehet dialect.

Consonants
Bilabial Alveolar Palatal Velar
Plain Labialized
Stop Unaspirated p pʷ t c k
Aspirated kʰ
Fricative s h
Nasal m mʷ n ŋ
Prenasalized trill nᵈr
Lateral l
Trill r
Semivowel w j
gollark: Current physical evidence is overwhelmingly in favour of it being globey. That doesn't mean that we have *proven* it must be a globe.
gollark: ... no, it's shown that *in our physical models*, this is the case, and I think in some cases they just start from that as an assumption.
gollark: It *cannot be proven* that this holds in all situations ever, because this is a statement about reality and not our models.
gollark: As far as anyone knows, yes.
gollark: Current physical theories say it can't. They seem to be right about this so far, but the models *do not create reality*, it goes the other way round.

References
  1. Khehek at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Khehek". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

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