Patpatar language

Patpatar
	Gelik
Native to	Papua New Guinea
Region	New Ireland Province
Native speakers	7,000 (1998)[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Western Meso-Melanesian (St George linkage) Patpatar–Tolai Patpatar; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Dialects	Pala; Sokirik;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	gfk
Glottolog	patp1243[2]

Patpatar, or Gelik, is an Austronesian language spoken in New Ireland Province in Papua New Guinea.

Phonology

Phonology of the Patpatar language:[3]

Consonant sounds
	Labial	Alveolar	Velar	Glottal
Plosive	p b	t d	k g
Nasal	m	n	ŋ
Rhotic		r
Lateral		l
Fricative		s		h

gollark: Lasers are just very focused light, utter bee.

gollark: Lasers are very dangerous because they get focused onto a small spot on the eye, and all that.

gollark: Well, yes, but directly doing things to eyes sounds possibly eye-damaging.

gollark: Troubling.

gollark: You beam it into the eye itself? I see.

Patpatar at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Patpatar". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
Condra, Ed and Debi. 1986-91

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