Vadi: Difference between revisions

Stress is highly variable in Vadi, but it tends to fall on the penultimate syllable.  The Romanized orthography commonly used among Vadists employs marks stress with an acute accent, which in turn implies that the vowel is lengthened, although exceptions abound.  When a penultimate syllable is marked with an acute accent, one can generally assume that vowel lengthening has also occurred, although at times it may be an orthographic relic from a time when the vowel was lengthened in the past, but in modern speech has been shortened.