Native to Papua New Guinea ISO 639-3 pex | Region Buka Island Glottolog peta1245 | |
Native speakers (2,000 cited 1975)
8,000 L2 speakers (1977) Language family Austronesian
Malayo-Polynesian
Oceanic
Western
Meso-Melanesian
Northwest Solomonic
Nehan–Bougainville
Buka
Petats |
Petats is an Austronesian language spoken by a few thousand persons in Papua New Guinea. Dialects are Hitau-Pororan, Matsungan, and Sumoun.
References
Petats language Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA