Titan language

Titan language
Titan
Manus
Spoken in  Papua New Guinea
Region Manus & neighboring islands
Native speakers 3,850  (1992)
Language family
Austronesian
Language codes
ISO 639-3 ttv

Titan, also known as Manus, is an East Manus language of the Austronesian language family spoken in the southeastern part of Manus Island, New Guinea, and neighboring islands by about 4,000 people.

Titan has a bilabial trill and prenasalized consonants, as in [ⁿrakeiʔin] 'girls' and [ᵐʙutukei] 'wooden plate'.

Refenences

  • Ladefoged, Peter (2005). Vowels and Consonants (Second ed.). Blackwell.



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