Petats is an Austronesian language spoken by a few thousand persons in

Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea (abbreviated PNG; , ; tpi, Papua Niugini; ho, Papua Niu Gini), officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea ( tpi, Independen Stet bilong Papua Niugini; ho, Independen Stet bilong Papua Niu Gini), is a country i ...

. Dialects are Hitau-Pororan, Matsungan, and Sumoun.

Grammar

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

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 Wales ...

collections
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AC2
and the Malcolm Ross collection
MR1
held by

Paradisec The Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures (PARADISEC) is a cross-institutional project that supports work on endangered languages and cultures of the Pacific and the region around Australia. They digitise reel-to ...

References

Northwest Solomonic languages Languages of Papua New Guinea Languages of the Autonomous Region of Bougainville {{MesoMelanesian-lang-stub