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Tenis language

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

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Tenis
Tench
Native toPapua New Guinea
RegionTench Island (New Ireland Province)
Native speakers
(30 cited 2000)1
Language codes
ISO 639-3tns
Glottologteni1244
ELPTenis
Tench is classified as Critically Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger.

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

References

References

  1. Tenis at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)