Kandas language

{{Short description|Oceanic language}}

{{Infobox language

|name=Kandas

|altname=

|state=Papua New Guinea

|region=New Ireland

|ethnicity={{sigfig|1,460|2}} (2010)

|speakers={{sigfig|1,400|2}}

|date=2010

|ref=e25

|familycolor=Austronesian

|fam2=Malayo-Polynesian

|fam3=Oceanic

|fam4=Western

|fam5=Meso-Melanesian

|fam6=(St George linkage)

|fam7=Kandas–Ramoaaina

|map2=Lang Status 80-VU.svg

|mapcaption2={{center|{{small|Kandas is classified as Vulnerable by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger}}}}

|iso3=kqw

|glotto=kand1301

|glottorefname=Kandas

}}

Kandas is an Oceanic language spoken on New Ireland in Papua New Guinea.