Tainae language

Tainae is an Angan language of Gulf Province, Papua New Guinea. Famba (-7.50636°N, 145.81136°W, Paiguna, and Pio (-7.50414°N, 145.79581°W) 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/.