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 ====Length and Stress====
-Vowel length is distinctive in Nidâri and is indicated by macrons.  The phoneme /ɒ:/ is inherently long and indicated by a macron <â> in the ''Vannâri'' orthography.  Stress usually falls on the last syllable, but with certain affixes, whether inflectional or derivational, the stress shifts to the penultimate, e.g. ''jandarme'' /jæn'darmɛ/ "healer, doctor" (the affix ''-mɛ'' derives occupational nouns).
+Vowel length is distinctive in Nidâri and is indicated by macrons.  The phoneme /ɒ:/ is inherently long and indicated by a circumflex <â> in the ''Vannâri'' orthography.  Stress usually falls on the last syllable, but with certain affixes, whether inflectional or derivational, the stress shifts to the penultimate, e.g. ''jandarme'' /jæn'darmɛ/ "healer, doctor" (the affix ''-mɛ'' derives occupational nouns).
 ====Intonation====