Af Mexee: Difference between revisions

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====Stress====
====Stress====
====Intonation====
====Intonation====
Af Mexee is tonal. It has two tones: low and high. These are not normally indicated in writing, although this article mostly does. A high tone is indicated with an acute accent, while a circumflex denotes a vowel that has a high tone unless the following word has an high tone.
Af Mexee has a pitch accent (I think). There are two tones: low and high. These are not normally indicated in writing, although this article mostly does. A high tone is indicated with an acute accent, while a circumflex denotes a vowel that has a high tone unless the following word has an high tone.


e.g. ''wâa'' + ''taghi'' → ''wáa taghi''
e.g. ''wâa'' + ''taghi'' → ''wáa taghi''
:''wâa'' + ''tághi'' → ''waa tághi''
:''wâa'' + ''tághi'' → ''waa tághi''


With long vowels and diphthongs, there are three possibilities:
With long vowels and short diphthongs, there are three possibilities:
*Falling: ''áa'' (low-high)
*Falling: ''áa'' (low-high)
*Rising ''aá'' (high-low)
*Rising ''aá'' (high-low)
*Low: ''aa'' (low-low)
*Low: ''aa'' (low-low)
With long diphthongs, there are four possibilities:
*Falling: ''áay'' (high-low-low)
*Falling-Rising: ''aáy'' (low-high-low)
*Rising: ''aaý'' (low-low-high)
*Low: ''aay'' (low-low-low)


===Phonotactics===
===Phonotactics===
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