Bird's Head language spoken in Indonesia
Tehit is a Papuan language of the Bird's Head Peninsula of New Guinea. Other spellings are "Tahit, Tehid," and other names "Kaibus, Teminabuan". Dialects are Tehit Jit, Mbol Fle, Saifi, Imyan, Sfa Riere, Fkar, Sawiat Salmeit.
Subdivisions.
Subgroups.
Major Tehit ethnic subgroups:
Locations of some Tehit subgroups:
Clans.
Tehit clans:
Morphology.
Tehit has four grammatical genders, which are masculine, feminine, plural, and neuter. Examples:
Gender prefixes in Tehit can not only be used to denote gender, but also size, wholeness, and the stability of appearances. Masculine gender is associated with small size, parts of wholes, and changing appearances, while feminine gender is associated with large size, wholeness, and stable appearances. Examples (from Flassy 1991: 10–12):
References.
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Further reading.
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