Kaniet language

Kaniet
Native to Papua New Guinea
Region Kaniet and western Anchorite island groups, Manus Province
Extinct 1950
Language codes
ISO 639-3 ktk
Glottolog anch1239[1]

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]

Two languages were spoken on the islands, one reported by Thilenius and one by Dempwolff.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Anchorite". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  2. ↑ Ethnologue report for Kaniet
  3. ↑


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