Native to Papua New Guinea ISO 639-3 ttv | Native speakers (3,900 cited 1992) Glottolog tita1241 | |
Region Manus & neighboring islands Language family Austronesian
Malayo-Polynesian
Oceanic
Admiralty Islands
Eastern Admiralty Islands
Manus
East Manus
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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 language Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA