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Petats language

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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