Kaniet language

Kaniet
Kaniet
Native to	Papua New Guinea
Region	Kaniet and western Anchorite island groups, Manus Province
Extinct	1950
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Admiralty Islands Western Admiralty Islands Kaniet; ; ; ; ;
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]

^ "Kaniet". Ethnologue. Archived from the original on 2009-01-30. Retrieved 2010-08-07.
^ Dunn, Michael; Reesink, Ger (2012). "Systematic Typological Comparison as a Tool for Investigating Language History". In Evans, Nicholas; Klamer, Marian (eds.). Melanesian Languages on the Edge of Asia: Challenges for the 21st Century. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press. pp. 34–71. hdl:10125/4560. ISBN 978-0-9856211-2-4.