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Petats is an
Austronesian language The Austronesian languages ( ) are a language family widely spoken throughout Maritime Southeast Asia, parts of Mainland Southeast Asia, Madagascar, the islands of the Pacific Ocean and Taiwan (by Taiwanese indigenous peoples). They are spoken b ...
spoken by a few thousand persons in
Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea, officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is an island country in Oceania that comprises the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and offshore islands in Melanesia, a region of the southwestern Pacific Ocean n ...
. Dialects are Hitau-Pororan, Matsungan, and Sumoun.


Grammar

Verbal inflection is accomplished through post verbal pronominal particles which carry tense and mood marking.


References


Resources

* Global Recordings Networ
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 Arthur Capell (28 March 1902 – 10 August 1986) was an Australian linguist, who made major contributions to the study of Australian languages, Austronesian languages and Papuan languages. Early life Capell was born in Newtown, New South W ...
collections
AC1
an
AC2
and the Malcolm Ross collection
MR1
held by Paradisec. Northwest Solomonic languages Languages of Papua New Guinea Languages of the Autonomous Region of Bougainville {{MesoMelanesian-lang-stub