Social:Kaniet language

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Short description: Language
Kaniet
Native toPapua New Guinea
RegionKaniet and western Anchorite island groups, Manus Province
Extinct1950
Austronesian
  • Malayo-Polynesian
    • Oceanic
      • Admiralty Islands
        • Western Admiralty Islands
          • Kaniet
Language codes
ISO 639-3ktk
Glottologanch1239[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. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "Anchorite". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/anch1239. 
  2. Ethnologue report for Kaniet
  3. Dunn, Michael. "Systematic typological comparison as a tool for investigating language history". Melanesian Languages on the Edge of Asia: Challenges for the 21St Century. https://www.academia.edu/2843435.