Titan language
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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 consonant
s, as in [ⁿrakeiʔin] 'girls' and [ᵐʙutukei] 'wooden plate'.
Austronesian languages
The Austronesian languages are a language family widely dispersed throughout the islands of Southeast Asia and the Pacific, with a few members spoken on continental Asia that are spoken by about 386 million people. It is on par with Indo-European, Niger-Congo, Afroasiatic and Uralic as one of the...
spoken in the southeastern part of Manus Island
Manus Island
Manus Island is part of Manus Province in northern Papua New Guinea and is the largest island of the Admiralty Islands. It is the fifth largest island in Papua New Guinea with an area of 2,100 km², measuring around 100 km × 30 km. According to the 2000 census, Manus Island had a...
, New Guinea
New Guinea
New Guinea is the world's second largest island, after Greenland, covering a land area of 786,000 km2. Located in the southwest Pacific Ocean, it lies geographically to the east of the Malay Archipelago, with which it is sometimes included as part of a greater Indo-Australian Archipelago...
, and neighboring islands by about 4,000 people.
Titan has a bilabial trill
Bilabial trill
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and prenasalized consonant
Prenasalized consonant
Prenasalized consonants are phonetic sequences of a nasal and an obstruent that behave phonologically like single consonants. The reasons for considering these sequences to be single consonants is in their behavior, not in their actual composition...
s, as in [ⁿrakeiʔin] 'girls' and [ᵐʙutukei] 'wooden plate'.