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Mehek is a Tama language spoken by about 6300 people in a somewhat mountainous area along the southern base of the Torricelli
Mountains in northwestern Papua New Guinea. Mehek is spoken in six villages of Sandaun Province: Nuku, Yiminum, Mansuku, Yifkindu,
Wilwil, and Kafle. Mehek is most closely related to Pahi, with 51% lexical similarity, and spoken approximately 20 kilometers
to the southwest. Mehek is a fairly typical Papuan language, being verb-final, having a relatively simple phonology, and agglutinative
morphology. There is very little published information about Mehek. The literacy rate in Tok Pisin, spoken by nearly everyone,
is 50-75%. Mehek is not written, so there is no literacy in Mehek. Tok Pisin is primarily used in the schools, with 50% children
attending. |
Names (more)[en] Mehek language |
Language type : Living
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