Tainae language

Tainae is an Angan language of Gulf Province, Papua New Guinea. Famba of Kotidanga Rural LLG are the main villages.
A grammatical sketch of Tainae was written by Carlson.

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/.

	Front	Central	Back
High
Mid
Low

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/.