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===Prosody=== | ===Prosody=== | ||
====Stress==== | ====Stress==== | ||
Stress is highly variable in Vadi, but it tends to fall on the penultimate syllable. | Stress is highly variable in Vadi, but it tends to fall on the penultimate syllable. Schumann's Romanized orthography 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 by late Vadi times had been shortened. In contrast, Iyyaħmi uses a macron to indicate simple vowel lengthening, and an acute accent for accented short vowels. | ||
====Intonation==== | ====Intonation==== | ||