Northern Kaniet Language
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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 18 islands in the Bismarck Archipelago, to the north of New Guinea in the South ...
, a subgroup of the Admiralty Islands languages, 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 is ...
(Anchorite Islands) in western Manus Province of Papua New Guinea until the 1950s.Ethnologue report for Kaniet
/ref> Two languages were spoken on the islands, one reported by Thilenius and one by Dempwolff.


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Admiralty Islands languages Languages of Manus Province Extinct languages of Oceania Languages extinct in the 1950s {{admiralty-lang-stub