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===Prosody=== | ===Prosody=== | ||
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Kola has a pitch accent system. A word can have one accented vowel (usually the ultimate or penultimate syllable). The accented vowel may have a high tone or a low tone. Accent and tone is not normally indicated in writing, but this article uses an acute accent for high tone and a grave accent for low tone. | Kola has a pitch accent system. A word can have one accented vowel (usually the ultimate or penultimate syllable). The accented vowel may have a high/rising tone or a low/falling tone. Accent and tone is not normally indicated in writing, but this article uses an acute accent for high/rising tone and a grave accent for low/falling tone. Some words may not have an accented vowel. | ||
In practice, the tone difference does not have a lot of functional value, and mixing them up will not cause much misunderstanding. | |||
====Intonation==== | ====Intonation==== | ||
===Phonotactics=== | ===Phonotactics=== | ||