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** When long vowels are pronounced as identical vowels in hiatus, each vowel carries its own tone. If stressed, they follow the pattern of HM. If preceding a stressed syllable, then ML. Using the examples above, ''enâ'' would be pronounced as [ɛ̀ˈnáˌa] and ''bābá'' as [ba.àˈbá].
** When long vowels are pronounced as identical vowels in hiatus, each vowel carries its own tone. If stressed, they follow the pattern of HM. If preceding a stressed syllable, then ML. Using the examples above, ''enâ'' would be pronounced as [ɛ̀ˈnáˌa] and ''bābá'' as [ba.àˈbá].


===W-ablaut===
===Ablauts===


The '''w-ablaut''' is a morpho-phonological process that appears throughout Saxuma inflections. It performs the following vowel transformations:  
There are two ablauts that appear through a number of Saxuma inflections.
 
The '''w-ablaut''' is the more common. It performs the following vowel transformations:  
* a → aw, or → o if word-final and unstressed
* a → aw, or → o if word-final and unstressed
* i → yu
* i → yu
* e → yo
* u → ū
* u → ū
* e → yo
* o → ō
* o → ō
The '''y-ablaut''' primarily only appears in the -JA verbal conjugation. It performs the following transformations:
* a → ay
* i → ī
* e → ē
* u, o → oy


==Orthography==
==Orthography==