This article is about the Austronesian language spoken in Papua New Guinea. For the Austronesian language spoken in Indonesia, see Manus language (Indonesia).
Titan
NativenameManus
StatesPapua New Guinea
RegionManus & neighboring islands
Date2000
Refe25
FamilycolorAustronesian
Fam 2Malayo-Polynesian
Fam 3Oceanic
Fam 4Admiralty Islands
Fam 5Eastern Admiralty Islands
Fam 6Manus
Fam 7East Manus
Iso 3ttv
Glottotita1241
GlottorefnameTitan

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

Phonology of the Titan language:

Consonant sounds
LabialAlveolarPalatalVelarGlottal
plainlab.
Plosivep(pʷ)tck(ʔ)
Nasalm(mʷ)nɲŋ
Fricativevsh
Prenasalized
Trill		ᵐʙⁿdr
Trillr
Laterall
Approximantwj

Consonant sounds in parentheses are only inferred to exist in Titan, or to exist in other dialects of Titan.

Vowel sounds
FrontCentralBack
Highiu
ɪ
Mideo
Lowa

An /e/ sound may also be interchangeable with an open-mid sound /ɛ/.[1]

References

  1. ^ 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

  • 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.