Tainae is an
Angan language of
Gulf Province
Gulf Province is a province of Papua New Guinea located on the southern coast. The provincial capital is Kerema. The 34,472 km2 province is dominated by mountains, lowland river deltas, and grassland flood plains. In Gulf Province, the Kiko ...
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Papua New Guinea
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. Famba (, Paiguna, and Pio () of
Kotidanga Rural LLG are the main villages.
[Carlson, Terry. 1991. ''Tainae grammar essentials''. Manuscript. Ukarumpa: SIL-PNG.]
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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References
Angan languages
Languages of Gulf Province
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