Petats language

Petats
Native to Papua New Guinea
Region Buka Island
Native speakers
 unknown (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.

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References

  1. ↑ Petats at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Petats". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.


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