Patpatar language

Patpatar
Gelik
Native to	Papua New Guinea
Region	New Ireland Province
Native speakers	(7,000 cited 1998)[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Western Meso-Melanesian (St George linkage) Patpatar–Tolai Patpatar
Dialects	Pala Sokirik
Language codes
ISO 639-3	gfk
Glottolog	patp1243

Patpatar, or Gelik, is an Austronesian language spoken in New Ireland Province in Papua New Guinea.

Phonology

Phonology of the Patpatar language:^[2][3]

Consonant sounds

	Labial	Alveolar	Dorsal	Glottal
Nasal	m	n	ŋ
Plosive	p b	t d	k g
Fricative		s		h
Rhotic		r
Lateral		l
Glide	w		(j)

Vowel sounds

	Front	Back
High	i	u
Mid	e	o
Low	a

References

1. Patpatar at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
2. Condra, Ed and Debi. 1986-91
3. Condra, Ed (1989). Patpatar grammar essentials. Ukarumpa: Summer Institute of Linguistics.