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Many words in SamSka carry a pitch accent (also called a rising tone). These words are nouns, adjectives and verbs in which the stem includes the primarily stressed syllable followed by an unstressed schwa syllable. For example '''slange''' /ˈsláŋːə/ (''snake'') has a rising tone; '''slang''' /slaŋː/ (slang) has no tone. This extends to inflections of such words when they acquire suffixes. For example '''slangen''' /ˈsláŋːən/ (''the snake'') looks identical to '''slangen''' /ˈslaŋːən/ (''the slang'') when written but the first word may be distinguished in speech by its rising tone. | |||
In the case of related words such as '''styre''' (noun = ''management'') and '''styre''' (verb = ''to steer''), the stem of the noun is regarded as ending in an unstressed schwa syllable and '''styre''' (noun) will have a rising tone. In the case of the verb, the stem is considered to be '''styr-''' and it will have no tone. This means that '''styret''' (''the management'') will have a rising tone whereas '''styret''' (past participle of '''styre''') will not. | |||
Other words with a rising tone would be two syllable stems that end in '''-el''', '''-en''', or '''-er'''. This would include: | |||
'''avle''' (verb, ''to beget'') | |||
'''enkel''' (adjective, ''simple'') | |||
'''ketel''' (noun, ''kettle'') | |||
'''sakne''' (verb, ''to lack'') | |||
'''galen''' (adjective, ''crazy'') | |||
'''vaten''' (noun, ''water'') | |||
'''slummre''' (verb, ''to slumber'') | |||
'''vakker''' (adjective, ''beautiful'') | |||
'''veder''' (noun, ''weather'') | |||
====Table of Phonemes==== | ====Table of Phonemes==== | ||