Tenis language

Tenis
	Tench
Native to	Papua New Guinea
Region	Islands of Mussau and Emira (New Ireland Province)
Native speakers	30 (2000)[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic St. Matthias Tenis; ; ; ;
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

Tenis at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Tenis". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

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