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Ethnologue > Web version > Country index > Pacific > Papua New Guinea > Tenis

Tenis

A language of Papua New Guinea

ISO 639-3tns

Population  30 (2000 S. Wurm).
Region  New Ireland Province, Tench Island.
Language map  Papua New Guinea, Map 2, reference number 31
Alternate names   Tench
Classification  Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, St. Matthias
Language use  Also use Mussau-Emira [emi].
Comments  Nearly extinct.