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 - Accented vowels á, é, í, ó, ú are long: /a: e: i: o: u:/
-Da words are stressed on the last <b>root</b> vowel. Most often, this turns out to be the penultimate syllable, or the last syllable if the word ends with a consonant. In a multi-syllable word, when the stress falls in an unusual place, it is sometimes denoted by an accent: á, é, í, ó, ú. (We will do this more often here than what is usually seen in Da texts, where accents may be omitted altogether.) Stress can play a distinctive role: e.g. compare ''hotei'' "when?" and ''hotti'' "where to?".
+Da words are stressed on the last <b>root</b> vowel. Most often, this turns out to be the penultimate syllable, or the last syllable if the word ends with a consonant. In a multi-syllable word, when the stress falls in an unusual place, it is sometimes denoted by an accent: á, é, í, ó, ú. We will do this more often here than what is usually seen in Da texts, where accents may be omitted altogether.
 =Phonotactics=