Tenis language
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Moribund Austronesian language of northeast Papua New Guinea
Tenis | |
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Tench | |
Native to | Papua New Guinea |
Region | Tench Island (New Ireland Province) |
Native speakers | 30 (2000)[1] |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | tns |
Glottolog | teni1244 |
ELP | Tenis |
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
[edit]- ^ Tenis at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
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