Vadi: Difference between revisions

Stress is highly variable in Vadi, but it tends to fall on the penultimate syllable.  Schumann's Romanized orthography marks stress with an acute accent, which in turn implies that the vowel is lengthened, although exceptions regarding vowel lengthening 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.  Words containing a single macron and no additional diacritics indicate that the syllable containing the long vowel bears the stress; words containing a vowel with an acute accent bear the stress, regardless of the presence of other long vowels.