Khehek language

Khehek
Khehek
Levei-Ndrehet
Native to	Papua New Guinea
Region	West-central Manus Island, Manus Province
Native speakers	(1,600 cited 1991)
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Admiralty Islands Eastern Admiralty Islands Manus West Manus Khehek; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Dialects	Drehet (Ndrehet); Levei;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	tlx
Glottolog	kheh1237

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.

Phonology

Drehet dialect^[2]
		Bilabial		Alveolar	Palatal	Velar
		Plain	Labialized	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar
Stop	Unaspirated	p	pʷ	t	c	k
Stop	Aspirated					kʰ
Fricative				s		h
Nasal		m	mʷ	n		ŋ
Prenasalized trill				nᵈr
Lateral				l
Trill				r
Semivowel		w			j

Levei dialect^[2]
	Bilabial		Alveolar	Palatal	Velar
	Plain	Labialized	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar
Stop	p	pʷ	t	c	k
Fricative			s		h
Nasal	m	mʷ	n		ŋ
Prenasalized trill			nᵈr
Lateral			l
Trill			r
Semivowel	w			j

Notes

↑ Khehek at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
1 2 Blust 2005, p. 234.

References

Blust, Robert (2005). "Must sound change be linguistically motivated?". Diachronica. 22 (2): 219–269. doi:10.1075/dia.22.2.02blu.

External links

Kaipuleohone's Robert Blust collections include written and audio materials on the Levei dialect as well as written and audio materials on the Drehet dialect

[e18-1] Khehek at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

[FOOTNOTEBlust2005234-2] 1 2 Blust 2005, p. 234.

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