Titan | |
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Manus | |
Native to | Papua New Guinea |
Region | Manus & neighboring islands |
Native speakers | 5,100 (2000)[1] |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | ttv |
Glottolog | tita1241 |
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'.
Phonology of the Titan language:
Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
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plain | lab. | |||||
Plosive | p | (pʷ) | t | c | k | (ʔ) |
Nasal | m | (mʷ) | n | ɲ | ŋ | |
Fricative | v | s | h | |||
Prenasalized Trill |
ᵐʙ | ⁿdr | ||||
Trill | r | |||||
Lateral | l | |||||
Approximant | w | j |
Consonant sounds in parentheses are only inferred to exist in Titan, or to exist in other dialects of Titan.
Front | Central | Back | |
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High | i | u | |
ɪ | |||
Mid | e | o | |
Low | a |
An /e/ sound may also be interchangeable with an open-mid sound /ɛ/.[2]
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