| Khehek | |
| Nativename: | Levei-Ndrehet |
| States: | Papua New Guinea |
| Region: | West-central Manus Island, Manus Province |
| Speakers: | 1,600 |
| Date: | 1991 |
| Ref: | e18 |
| Familycolor: | Austronesian |
| Fam2: | Malayo-Polynesian |
| Fam3: | Oceanic |
| Fam4: | Admiralty Islands |
| Fam5: | Eastern Admiralty Islands |
| Fam6: | Manus |
| Fam7: | West Manus |
| Dia1: | Drehet (Ndrehet) |
| Dia2: | Levei |
| Iso3: | tlx |
| Glotto: | kheh1237 |
| Glottorefname: | Khehek |
| Notice: | IPA |
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.
The following description is of the Drehet dialect.
| Bilabial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plain | Labialized | ||||||
| Stop | Unaspirated | pronounced as /p/ | pronounced as /pʷ/ | pronounced as /t/ | pronounced as /c/ | pronounced as /k/ | |
| Aspirated | pronounced as /kʰ/ | ||||||
| Fricative | pronounced as /s/ | pronounced as /h/ | |||||
| Nasal | pronounced as /m/ | pronounced as /mʷ/ | pronounced as /n/ | pronounced as /ŋ/ | |||
| Prenasalized trill | pronounced as /nᵈr/ | ||||||
| Lateral | pronounced as /l/ | ||||||
| Trill | pronounced as /r/ | ||||||
| Semivowel | pronounced as /w/ | pronounced as /j/ | |||||