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 OrthographyPetats 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
AC1an
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
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