Tenis language

Tenis
Tench
Native to Papua New Guinea
Region Islands of Mussau and Emira (New Ireland Province)
Native speakers
30 (2000)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 tns
Glottolog teni1244[2]

Tenis, or Tench, is the nearly extinct language of Tench Island in the St. Matthias Islands of the Bismarck Archipelago.

References

  1. Tenis at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Tenis". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.


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