The Tennet home area is a group of fifteen (15) villages at the northern part of Eastern Equatoria state, 65 kilometers northeast of Torit.
The major town for Tennet is Arilo, of Lafon County, Eastern Equatoria State (Ethnologue).
Most consonants are members of a fortis/lenis pair, and that fortis may be realized phonetically in several ways: lengthening, change from ingressive to egressive, trilling, devoicing, and fricative hardening (becoming a stop).
[10] Like its closer Surmic relatives, Tennet uses multiple strategies to mark number on nouns.
Tennet has a marked nominative system, where a noun takes a suffix when it is the subject of either a transitive or intransitive verb.
[16] As is the case with other Surmic languages, Tennet's word order for interrogative clauses is typologically surprising.
If that is what they are, Tennet syntax contains another typological anomaly, since Greenberg's Universal 9 predicts prepositions for VSO languages.