Khehek
Facts
- Language: Khehek
- Alternate names: Levei-Drehet, Levei-Ndrehet
- Language code: tlx
- Language family: Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, Admiralty Islands, Eastern Admiralty Islands, Manus, West Manus, West Manus II
- Number of speakers: 1600
- Script:
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Introduction
Khehek is a language of Papua New Guinea. It is spoken in Manus Province, Soparibeu district, Ndrehet (the center), Levei, and Bucho villages.
Dialects
Bucho, Drehet (Chechek, Chehek, Khehek), Levei (Lebei, Lebej). In Levei a dialect closely related to Bucho south dialect is spoken.
The Khehek Verb
Verblist
- [h]isih -- to buy
- [h]ittuŋ -- to hide
- cumʷop -- to count
- e|teŋ -- to cry
- haʔak, waʔak -- to bite
- hetek -- to walk
- hoʔopʷiʔip, kumʷek -- to kill
- huleŋ -- to hear
- i cumʷek, sopu -- to live, be alive
- i i|ri -- to stand
- id̃oŋ -- to fall
- ija -- to swim
- ijoh -- to cook
- ikkeh -- to squeeze
- ikkih -- to shoot
- illah -- to swell
- illih -- to fly
- im|mih -- to dream
- imiŋ -- to sit
- immeh -- to see
- ipʷana -- to steal
- ipʷek -- to cut, hack
- ireh, ireŋ -- to split
- isikih -- to sew
- isolop -- to laugh
- isoŋ -- to chew
- isuŋ -- to burn
- isuruh -- to spit
- ittoh -- to grow
- kajek, o|me -- to come
- lohote -- to throw
- mesiŋ -- to lie down
- mesiŋ -- to sleep
- molohɔp -- to yawn
- munuhuŋ -- to sniff, smell
- onɔk -- to climb
- onnoh -- to fear
- rasih -- to stab, pierce
- sammuk -- to hit
- sawep -- to tie up, fasten
- sehe nɔhɔŋ -- to breathe
- sopʷe -- to blow
- tanneh -- to say
- tannuŋ -- to hunt
- taʔuŋ -- to turn
- tolip -- to hold
- tomʷene -- to think
- tonok -- to know, be knowledgeable
- u|mʷek -- to die, be dead
- uheŋ -- to plant
- u-muh -- to vomit
- waʔ|aŋ -- to eat
- waʔih -- to dig
- waʔih, yaʔih -- to scratch
- wok -- to work
- wuʔ|uŋ -- to drink
- wuʔuŋ -- to suck