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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