Petats language

Petats
Petats
Native to	Papua New Guinea
Region	Buka Island
Native speakers	(2,000 cited 1975); 8,000 L2 speakers (1977)
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Western Meso-Melanesian Northwest Solomonic Nehan–Bougainville Buka Petats; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	pex
Glottolog	peta1245

Petats is an Austronesian language spoken by a few thousand persons in Papua New Guinea. Dialects are Hitau-Pororan, Matsungan, and Sumoun.

Grammar[]

Verbal inflection is accomplished through post verbal pronominal particles which carry tense and mood marking. ^[2]

Global Recordings Network Petats
Jerry Allen and Matthew Beaso. 1975. Petats Phonemes and Orthography
Petats Organised Phonology Data
Materials on Petats are included in the open access Arthur Capell collections (AC1 and AC2) and the Malcolm Ross collection (MR1) held by Paradisec.

^ Petats at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
^ Cropp, A.H. (between 1900 and 1931?). A short grammar of the Petats dialect. Check date values in: |date= (help)

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