| Petats | |
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| Native to | Papua New Guinea |
| Region | Buka Island |
Native speakers | (2,000 cited 1975) 8,000 L2 speakers (1977) |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | pex |
| Glottolog | peta1245 |
Petats is an Austronesian language spoken by a few thousand persons in Papua New Guinea. Dialects are Hitau-Pororan, Matsungan, and Sumoun.[citation needed]
Verbal inflection is accomplished through post verbal pronominal particles which carry tense and mood marking.
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