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 cited 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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