Drehet language

Drehet
Spoken in	Manus, Papua New Guinea
Native speakers	?  (date missing)
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Admiralty Islands Eastern Admiralty Islands Manus West Manus Khehek Drehet
Writing system	Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3	tlx
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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

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

External links

• Drehet language at Ethnologue