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Petats

A language of Papua New Guinea

ISO 639-3: pex

Population	2,000 (1975 SIL).
Region	Bougainville Province, Buka Passage District, Petats, Pororan, and Hitau islands off Buka Island west coast.
Language map	Papua New Guinea, Map 13, reference number 610
Alternate names	Majugan
Dialects	Hitau-Pororan, Matsungan, Sumoun. Sumoun [pex] may be a dialect.
Classification	Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, Western Oceanic, Meso Melanesian, New Ireland, South New Ireland-Northwest Solomonic, Nehan-North Bougainville, Buka
Language use	Trade language. 8,000 L2 speakers (Voegelin and Voegelin 1977).
Language development	Literacy rate in L1: 75%–100%. Literacy rate in L2: 75%–100%. Bible portions: 1934–1978.
Writing system	Latin script.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

ALLEN, Jerry; BEASO, Matthew, authors. 1975. Petats phonemes and orthography.  

Anonymous. n.d.. Petats Organised Phonology Data.  

LOVING, Richard, editor. 1975. Phonologies of five Austronesian languages.