Titan language
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| Titan | |
|---|---|
| Manus | |
| Native to | Papua New Guinea |
| Region | Manus & neighboring islands |
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Native speakers
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unknown (3,900 cited 1992)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | ttv |
| Glottolog | tita1241[2] |
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'.
References
- ↑ Titan at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- 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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