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| Petats | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Papua New Guinea |
| Region | Buka Island |
Native speakers | (2,000 cited 1975)[1] 8,000 L2 speakers (1977) |
| 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]
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.
References
- ^ 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:
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