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===Prosody=== | ===Prosody=== | ||
====Stress==== | ====Stress==== | ||
Stress in Cápa is generally paroxytonic, where primary stress is placed on the penultimate syllable of a word. | |||
=====Examples===== | |||
* '''''shí'''xher'' | |||
* '''''shá'''fna'' | |||
====Tone==== | ====Tone==== | ||
Cápa, like its contemporary languages of Zulu and Xhosa, is a tonal language, with four tones- high, low, rising and falling. | Cápa, like its contemporary languages of Zulu and Xhosa, is a tonal language, with four tones- high, low, rising and falling. | ||