Kaniet language

{{Short description|Language}}

{{Infobox language

|name = Kaniet

|nativename =

|states = Papua New Guinea

|region = Kaniet and western Anchorite island groups, Manus Province

|extinct = 1950

|familycolor = Austronesian

|fam2 = Malayo-Polynesian

|fam3 = Oceanic

|fam4 = Admiralty Islands

|fam5 = Western Admiralty Islands

|iso3 = ktk

|glotto=anch1239

|glottorefname=Anchorite

}}

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.{{Cite web |title=Kaniet |url=http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=ktk |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090130131833/http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=ktk |archive-date=2009-01-30 |access-date=2010-08-07 |website=Ethnologue}}

Two languages were spoken on the islands, one reported by Thilenius and one by Dempwolff.{{Cite book |last=Dunn |first=Michael |url=https://www.academia.edu/2843435 |title=Melanesian Languages on the Edge of Asia: Challenges for the 21st Century |last2=Reesink |first2=Ger |date=2012 |publisher=University of Hawai'i Press |isbn=978-0-9856211-2-4 |editor-last=Evans |editor-first=Nicholas |location=Honolulu |pages=34–71 |chapter=Systematic Typological Comparison as a Tool for Investigating Language History |hdl=10125/4560 |editor-last2=Klamer |editor-first2=Marian |hdl-access=free}}

References

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{{Languages of Papua New Guinea}}

{{Admiralty Islands languages}}

Category:Admiralty Islands languages

Category:Languages of Manus Province

Category:Languages extinct in the 1950s

Category:Extinct languages of Papua New Guinea

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