Tenis language

{{Short description|Moribund Austronesian language of northeast Papua New Guinea}}

{{Infobox language

|name=Tenis

|altname=Tench

|states=Papua New Guinea

|region=Tench Island (New Ireland Province)

|speakers=30

|date=2000

|ref=e18

|familycolor=Austronesian

|fam2=Malayo-Polynesian

|fam3=Oceanic

|fam4=St. Matthias

|map2=Lang Status 20-CR.svg

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

|iso3=tns

|glotto=teni1244

|glottorefname=Tenis

}}

Tenis, or Tench, is the nearly extinct language of Tench Island in the St Matthias Islands of the Bismarck Archipelago.