Drehet language
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| Drehet | ||
|---|---|---|
| Spoken in: | Manus, Papua New Guinea | |
| Total speakers: | ? | |
| Language family: | Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Central-Eastern Eastern Oceanic Admiralty Islands Eastern Manus West Drehet |
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| Writing system: | Latin alphabet | |
| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | map | |
| ISO 639-3: | tlx | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. See IPA chart for English for an English-based pronunciation key. | ||
Drehet (or Ndrehet) is an Oceanic language spoken on Manus, the largest of the Admiralty Islands, in Papua New Guinea.
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[edit] 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.
[edit] Phonology
[edit] Consonants
| Bilabial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | |||
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| 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 | ||||
[edit] References
- Blust, Robert (2005). "Must sound change be linguistically motivated?". Diachronica 22 (2): 219–269.
[edit] External links
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