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.

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 collections
AC1
an
AC2
and the Malcolm Ross (linguist), Malcolm Ross collection
MR1
held by Paradisec.

References

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