Petats | |
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Native to | Papua New Guinea |
Region | Buka Island |
Native speakers | (2,000 cited 1975) [1] 8,000 L2 speakers (1977) |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | pex |
Glottolog | peta1245 |
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