Tenis
Tench
Native to	Papua New Guinea
Region	Tench Island (New Ireland Province)
Native speakers	(30 cited 2000)[1]
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 theUNESCOAtlas of the World's Languages in Danger.

Tenis, orTench, is the nearly extinct language ofTench Island in theSt Matthias Islands of theBismarck Archipelago.

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