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

Tenis
Tench
Native toPapua-Neuguinea
RegionTench Island (New Ireland Province)
Native speakers
30 (2000)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3tns
Glottologteni1244
ELPTenis
Tench is classified as Critically Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger

References

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