Kaniet language
The Kaniet languages were two of four Western Admiralty Islands languages, a subgroup of the Admiralty Islands languages, the other two being Wuvulu-Aua and Seimat. The languages were spoken on the Kaniet Islands (Anchorite Islands) in western Manus Province of Papua New Guinea until the 1950s.[2]
| Kaniet | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Papua New Guinea |
| Region | Kaniet and western Anchorite island groups, Manus Province |
| Extinct | 1950 |
Austronesian
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | ktk |
| Glottolog | anch1239[1] |
Two languages were spoken on the islands, one reported by Thilenius and one by Dempwolff.[3]
References
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Anchorite". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- Ethnologue report for Kaniet
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