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Stress is usually on the first syllable of a word, with secondary stress applied to every subsequent odd-numbered syllable. Loanwords and foreign names typically preserve their original stress, however. | Stress is usually on the first syllable of a word, with secondary stress applied to every subsequent odd-numbered syllable. Loanwords and foreign names typically preserve their original stress, however. | ||
The glottal stop, ''hh'', which is fairly rare in lexical units, is used to separate morphemes to avoid two consecutive identical vowels. | |||
:''Ki-kani-ni.'' | |||
:2SG.ABS-listen-DRPAC | |||
:You listen. | |||
:''Ki'''hh'''-isi-ni.'' | |||
:2SG.ABS-talk-DRPAC | |||
:You talk. | |||
==Vocabulary== | ==Vocabulary== | ||