The Kaniet languages were two of four
Western Admiralty Islands languages
The Admiralty Islands languages are a group of some thirty Oceanic languages spoken on the Admiralty Islands
The Admiralty Islands are an archipelago group of 40 islands in the Bismarck Archipelago, to the north of New Guinea in the South Pa ...
, a subgroup of the
Admiralty Islands languages
The Admiralty Islands languages are a group of some thirty Oceanic languages
The approximately 450 Oceanic languages are a branch of the Austronesian languages. The area occupied by speakers of these languages includes Polynesia, as well as m ...
, the other two being
Wuvulu-Aua and
Seimat. The languages were spoken on the
Kaniet Islands
The Kaniet Islands are the easternmost group islands within the Western Islands of the Bismarck Archipelago, Papua New Guinea. It consists four islands and one islet. Their coordinates are , located north-east of the Hermit Islands. Sae Island i ...
(Anchorite Islands) in western
Manus Province
Manus Province is the smallest Provinces of Papua New Guinea, province in Papua New Guinea in terms of both land area and population, with a land area of , but with more than of water, and the total population is 60,485 (2011 census). The provi ...
of
Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea, officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is an island country in Oceania that comprises the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and offshore islands in Melanesia, a region of the southwestern Pacific Ocean n ...
until the 1950s.
Two languages were spoken on the islands, one reported by Thilenius and one by Dempwolff.
References
Admiralty Islands languages
Languages of Manus Province
Languages extinct in the 1950s
Extinct languages of Papua New Guinea
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