Tainae language

Tainae is an Angan language of Gulf Province, Papua New Guinea. Famba (, Paiguna, and Pio () of Kotidanga Rural LLG are the main villages.

A grammatical sketch of Tainae was written by Carlson (1991).

Phonology

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

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/.

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