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Tainae is an Angan language of Gulf Province, Papua New Guinea. Famba (7°30′23″S 145°48′41″E / 7.506365°S 145.811363°E / -7.506365; 145.811363 (Famba), Paiguna, and Pio (7°30′15″S 145°47′45″E / 7.504143°S 145.795808°E / -7.504143; 145.795808 (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 [t] when following another consonant.
• /k/ is palatalized [kʲ] after /i/, and labialized [kʷ] 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/.

References

1. ^ Tainae at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
2. United Nations in Papua New Guinea (2018). "Papua New Guinea Village Coordinates Lookup". Humanitarian Data Exchange. 1.31.9.
3. Carlson, Terry. 1991. Tainae grammar essentials. Manuscript. Ukarumpa: SIL-PNG.
4. ^ Carlson, Terry (1993). Tainae Organised Phonology Data. SIL International.

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