Petats language

Petats
Native toPapua New Guinea
RegionBuka Island
Native speakers
(2,000 cited 1975)
8,000 L2 speakers (1977)
Language codes
ISO 639-3pex
Glottologpeta1245

Petats is an Austronesian language spoken by a few thousand persons in Papua New Guinea. Dialects are Hitau-Pororan, Matsungan, and Sumoun.