Neo-Oceanic Hebrew: Difference between revisions

* Since a syllable may have no consonant onset or coda, it is not unusual to see several vowels next to each other in a word. In that case each vowel is a syllable, poua [pow.a], reia [ɾej.a].

* Three syllables are impossible: *ti, *wo, and *wu. Even when transcribing foreign words and names, these must be avoided. Instead, use ki, ō, and ū. e.g. Kiāna, Tiana .

* Every(native)word has one stress accent, which isl eft-defined.  Stress occurs on the first long vowel (or diphthong) from the left. The exceptions are the overlong (combined) pronouns, some of which have two accented (long) syllables.

* After reduplication, the accent does not shift. This causes some reduplications to be abbreviated or change vowels. rōŋa → rōŋa·ŋa.

* Long foreign words should be broken up into two and three syllable pieces, each of which has a marked long vowel or diphthong, for stress purposes. Tāruŋīŋu, Tarshish.

; morae : A word can be made more intense or used to indicate repeated action by undergoing redupli- cation. Reduplication is the process of repeating all or part of a word immediately afterwards. Because it is a transformation of a word (the only one possible!), it is not written with a space. In- stead, a middle dot is appended to the word, and the part of the word which is repeated is written immediately afterwards. How much of a word gets reduplicated is not directly dependent on it syllable structure, but it morae count. Morae are tabulated upon vowels, where a monophthong counts as one, a diphthong as two, and triphthong as three. Up to two morae are repeated, or just the entire word, whichever comes first.