Petats language

Petats
Native to	Papua New Guinea
Region	Buka Island
Native speakers	(2,000 cited 1975) [1] 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. ^[2] Dialects are Hitau-Pororan, Matsungan, and Sumoun.^{[ citation needed ]}

Grammar

Verbal inflection is accomplished through post verbal pronominal particles which carry tense and mood marking. ^[3]

References

1. Petats at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
2. "Petats | Ethnologue Free". Ethnologue (Free All). Retrieved 2023-10-28.
3. Cropp, A.H. (1900–1931). A short grammar of the Petats dialect.

Resources

• Global Recordings Network Petats Archived 2007-09-28 at the Wayback Machine
• 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.