Petats language

{{Short description|Austronesian language of Papua New Guinea}}

{{Infobox language

|name=Petats

|states=Papua New Guinea

|region=Buka Island

|ethnicity=

|speakers=2,000

|date=1975

|ref=e18

|speakers2=8,000 L2 speakers (1977)

|familycolor=Austronesian

|fam2=Malayo-Polynesian

|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.{{Cite web |title=Petats {{!}} Ethnologue Free |url=https://www.ethnologue.com/language/pex/ |access-date=2023-10-28 |website=Ethnologue (Free All) |language=en}} Dialects are Hitau-Pororan, Matsungan, and Sumoun.{{citation needed|date=March 2024}}

Grammar

Verbal inflection is accomplished through post verbal pronominal particles which carry tense and mood marking.{{cite book |last1=Cropp |first1=A.H. |title=A short grammar of the Petats dialect |date= 1900–1931}}

References

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Resources

  • Global Recordings Network [http://globalrecordings.net/program/C22891 Petats]
  • Jerry Allen and Matthew Beaso. 1975. [http://www.sil.org/pacific/png/pubs/0000442/3_Petats%20Phonemes%20and%20Orthography_Jerry%20Allen%20and%20Matthew%20Beaso.pdf Petats Phonemes and Orthography]
  • [http://www.sil.org/pacific/png/pubs/0000292/Petats.pdf Petats Organised Phonology Data]
  • Materials on Petats are included in the open access Arthur Capell collections ([http://catalog.paradisec.org.au/collections/AC1 AC1] and [http://catalog.paradisec.org.au/collections/AC2 AC2]) and the Malcolm Ross collection ([http://catalog.paradisec.org.au/collections/MR1 MR1]) held by Paradisec.

{{Languages of Papua New Guinea}}

{{Meso-Melanesian languages}}

{{Eastern Malayo-Polynesian languages}}

Category:Northwest Solomonic languages

Category:Languages of Papua New Guinea

Category:Languages of the Autonomous Region of Bougainville

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