Kaniet | |
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Native to | Papua New Guinea |
Region | Kaniet and western Anchorite island groups, Manus Province |
Extinct | 1950 |
Language family | Austronesian |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | ktk |
Glottolog | anch1239 |
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.
Two languages were spoken on the islands, one reported by Thilenius and one by Dempwolff.
References
- "Kaniet". Ethnologue. Archived from the original on 2009-01-30. Retrieved 2010-08-07.
- Dunn, Michael; Reesink, Ger (2012). "Systematic Typological Comparison as a Tool for Investigating Language History". In Evans, Nicholas; Klamer, Marian (eds.). Melanesian Languages on the Edge of Asia: Challenges for the 21st Century. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press. pp. 34–71. hdl:10125/4560. ISBN 978-0-9856211-2-4.
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