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
Manus
Native toPapua New Guinea
RegionManus & neighboring islands
Native speakers
5,100 (2000)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3ttv
Glottologtita1241

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

Phonology

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Phonology of the Titan language:

Consonant sounds
Labial Alveolar Palatal Velar Glottal
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.

Vowel sounds
Front Central Back
High i u
ɪ
Mid e o
Low a

An /e/ sound may also be interchangeable with an open-mid sound /ɛ/.[2]

References

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  1. ^ Titan at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)  
  2. ^ Bowern, Claire (2011). Sivisa Titan: Sketch Grammar, Texts, Vocabulary Based on Material Collected by P. Josef Meier and Po Minis. University of Hawai'i Press.

Further reading

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  • Bowern, Claire (2011). Sivisa Titan: Sketch grammar, texts, vocabulary based on material collected by P. Josef Meier and Po Minis. Oceanic Linguistics Special Publication No. 38. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press.
  • Ladefoged, Peter (2005). Vowels and Consonants (2nd ed.) Blackwell.
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