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[2]

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. [3]

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.

gollark: Are jetpacks THAt good?

gollark: Not much, robots are slow and underpowered.

gollark: RFTools energy shields are pretty strong defenses, lots of things won't even teleport through them.

gollark: Impressive.

gollark: Oh wow.

Petats at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Petats". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
Cropp, A.H. (between 1900 and 1931?). A short grammar of the Petats dialect. Check date values in: |date= (help)

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