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. They may include Yapese, which has proven difficult to classify. Languages According to Lynch, Ross, & Crowley (2002), the structure o ...

, a subgroup of the

Admiralty Islands languages The Admiralty Islands languages are a group of some thirty Oceanic languages spoken on the Admiralty Islands. They may include Yapese, which has proven difficult to classify. Languages According to Lynch, Ross, & Crowley (2002), the structure o ...

, 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 ...

(Anchorite Islands) in western

Manus Province Manus Province is the smallest 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 provincial town of Manus is Lorengau. ...

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until the 1950s.Ethnologue report for Kaniet
/ref> Two languages were spoken on the islands, one reported by Thilenius and one by Dempwolff.

References

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