Khehek language
| Drehet | |
|---|---|
| Region | Manus, Papua New Guinea |
Native speakers | 1,600 (1991 SIL)[1] |
| Latin | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | tlx |
Drehet (or Ndrehet) is an Oceanic language spoken on Manus, the largest of the Admiralty Islands, in Papua New Guinea.
Classification
Drehet is closely related to Levei, and the two are sometimes considered to be a single language, called Khehek, Levei–Drehet, or Levei–Ndrehet.
Phonology
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 | |||||
| Tril | r | |||||
| Semivowel | w | j | ||||
References
- ^ Ethnologue: Languages of the World (unknown ed.). SIL International.[This citation is dated, and should be substituted with a specific edition of Ethnologue]
- Blust, Robert (2005). "Must sound change be linguistically motivated?". Diachronica. 22 (2): 219–269. doi:10.1075/dia.22.2.02blu.
External links
- Ethnologue: Languages of the World (unknown ed.). SIL International.[This citation is dated, and should be substituted with a specific edition of Ethnologue]
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