Tainae language

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

Tainae is an Angan language of Gulf Province, Papua New Guinea. Famba ( 7°30′23″S145°48′41″E / 7.506365°S 145.811363°E / -7.506365; 145.811363 (Famba) , Paiguna, and Pio ( 7°30′15″S145°47′45″E / 7.504143°S 145.795808°E / -7.504143; 145.795808 (Pio) ) of Kotidanga Rural LLG are the main villages. ^{[1] [2]}

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]

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.