Tainae language

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Tainae
Ivori
Native to Papua New Guinea
Region Gulf Province
Native speakers
(1,000 cited 1991) [1]
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]

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References

  1. 1 2 Tainae at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed Access logo transparent.svg
  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.