Petats language explained

Petats
States:	Papua New Guinea
Region:	Buka Island
Speakers:	2,000
Date:	1975
Ref:	e18
Speakers2:	8,000 L2 speakers (1977)
Familycolor:	Austronesian
Fam3:	Oceanic
Fam4:	Western
Fam5:	Meso-Melanesian
Fam6:	Northwest Solomonic
Fam7:	Nehan–Bougainville
Fam8:	Buka
Iso3:	pex
Glotto:	peta1245
Glottorefname:	Petats

Petats is an Austronesian language spoken by a few thousand persons in Papua New Guinea.^[1] Dialects are Hitau-Pororan, Matsungan, and Sumoun.

Grammar

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

Resources

• 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.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Petats Ethnologue Free . 2023-10-28 . Ethnologue (Free All) . en.
2. Book: Cropp . A.H. . A short grammar of the Petats dialect . 1900–1931.