Tenis language

Tenis
Tenis
Tench
Native to	Papua New Guinea
Region	Tench Island (New Ireland Province)
Native speakers	(30 cited 2000)
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic St. Matthias Tenis; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	tns
Glottolog	teni1244
ELP	Tenis
	Tench is classified as Critically Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger .

Last updated November 01, 2025

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

References

↑ Tenis at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

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[e18-1] Tenis at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

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