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Kaniet
Native to Papua New Guinea
Region Kaniet and western Anchorite island groups, Manus Province
Extinct1950
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. [1]

Two languages were spoken on the islands, one reported by Thilenius and one by Dempwolff. [2]

References

  1. ^ Ethnologue report for Kaniet
  2. ^ Dunn, Michael. "Systematic typological comparison as a tool for investigating language history". Melanesian Languages on the Edge of Asia: Challenges for the 21St Century.