Titan language

Titan
Manus
Native to	Papua New Guinea
Region	Manus & neighboring islands
Native speakers	3,900 (1992)[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Admiralty Islands Eastern Admiralty Islands Manus East Manus Titan
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

1. Titan at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Titan". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

• 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.