Tainae language

Tainae is an Angan language of Gulf Province, Papua New Guinea. Famba (7.506365°S 145.811363°E / -7.506365; 145.811363 (Famba), Paiguna, and Pio (7.504143°S 145.795808°E / -7.504143; 145.795808 (Pio)) of Kotidanga Rural LLG are the main villages.^[1][2]

Tainae
Ivori
Native to	Papua New Guinea
Region	Gulf Province
Native speakers	(1,000 cited 1991)[1]
Language family	Trans–New Guinea Angan Southwest Akoye–Tainae Tainae
Language codes
ISO 639-3	ago
Glottolog	tain1253

A grammatical sketch of Tainae was written by Carlson (1991).^[3]

Phonology

Consonants^[4]

	Labial	Alveolar	Velar	Glottal
Plosive	p	t      d	k	ʔ
Fricative	f	s		h
Nasal	m	n

• Unvoiced consonants are voiced intervocalically or when adjacent to a voiced consonant.
• /d/ is unvoiced [t] when following another consonant.
• /k/ is palatalized [kʲ] after /i/, and labialized [kʷ] adjacent to /u/.

Vowels^[4]

	Front	Central	Back
High	i	ɨ	u
Mid	e		o
Low		a

Additionally, the following diphthongs can be found: /ai/, /ae/, /ao/, /au/, /oi/.

Stress is usually penultimate, unless that syllable contains /ɨ/, in which case stress moves leftwards to the first syllable that does not contain /ɨ/.^[4]