Subgroups

Major Tehit ethnic subgroups:^[2]

Locations of some Tehit subgroups:^[2]

• Tehit Mlafle and Tehit Mlakya, in Teminabuan District: Kaibus, Werisar, Keyen, Boldon, Seribau, Srer, and Sria villages.
• Tehit Konda, in Konda District: Konda, Mnaelek, and Mbariat villages.
• Tehit Nakya, in Saifi District: Malaswat, Manggroholo, Sira, Kwowok, Komanggaret, Sayal, Kayabo, Botaen, Sisir, and Knaya villages.
• Tehit Imian, in Seremuk District: Gamaro, Tofot, Haha, Woloin, and Kakas villages.
• Tehit Nasfa, in Sawiyat District: Wenslolo, Wensnahan, Wensi villages.

Clans

Tehit clans:^[2]

Consonants

• Glide sounds [w, j] mainly occur as a result of vowels /o, i/ in different syllable positions.^[3]
• /q/ can be heard as a fricative [ʁ] when in intervocalic positions, and as a velar [k] when in coda position within the onset of /i/.
• /d/ can also be heard as an affricate [dʒ] when preceding /i/ in word segments.
• Sounds /t, q/ are mainly unreleased [t̚, q̚] in when in word-final positions.
• Fricatives /ɸ, s/ can optionally be voiced as [β, z] when within the environment of /i/, among speech.^[4]

Vowels

• A schwa [ə] vowel sound is said to occur only in pretonic positions, which means in syllables preceding the stressed syllable. It is always heard as unstressed, and always in between consonant sounds.^[5][3]
• /i/ can be heard as [ɪ] when preceding a word-final /ɾ/, and as [ɨ] when preceding vowel sounds /a, o/ within the onset of a labial consonant.
• /e/ can be heard as [ɛ] when in closed syllables.
• /o/ may also have an allophone of [u] when in closed syllables within a labial consonantal onset with a back coda consonant.