Kaniet language
| Kaniet | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Papua New Guinea |
| Region | Kaniet and western Anchorite island groups, Manus Province |
| Extinct | 1950 |
|
Austronesian
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
ktk |
| Glottolog |
anch1239[1] |
The Kaniet language was one of three Western Admiralty Islands languages, a subgroup of the Admiralty Islands languages, the other two being Wuvulu-Aua and Seimat. The language was spoken on the (western?) Kaniet Islands (Anchorite Islands) in western Manus Province of Papua New Guinea until the 1950s.[2]
Evidently two languages went by the name, one reported by Thilenius, and one by Dempwolff.[3]
References
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Anchorite". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- ↑ Ethnologue report for Kaniet
- ↑