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These two phoenomena have influenced heavily the stress system of Brythohellenic. Nowadays the stress steadily falls on the last but one syllable: this means that in the plural forms of nouns it shifts, ex.: '''thalas''' ['θalas], "sea" > '''thalasas''' [θa'lasas], "seas"; '''ailur''' ['ai̯lur], "cat" > '''ailuroi''' [ai̯'luroi̯], "cats". | These two phoenomena have influenced heavily the stress system of Brythohellenic. Nowadays the stress steadily falls on the last but one syllable: this means that in the plural forms of nouns it shifts, ex.: '''thalas''' ['θalas], "sea" > '''thalasas''' [θa'lasas], "seas"; '''ailur''' ['ai̯lur], "cat" > '''ailuroi''' [ai̯'luroi̯], "cats". | ||
Sometimes the accent falls on the last syllable, aboce all in some verbal forms. In these cases an acute accent is written on the accented vowel, ex.: '''emén nüi''', "we are"; '''acú eu''', "I hear". The written accent can also distinguish two words that are written the same but have got different meanings, ex.: '''y''', "than", ≠ '''ý''', "she". | Sometimes the accent falls on the last syllable, aboce all in some verbal forms. In these cases an acute accent is written on the accented vowel, ex.: '''emén nüi''' [e'mennui̯ ], "we are"; '''acú eu''' [a'ku eu̯], "I hear". The written accent can also distinguish two words that are written the same but have got different meanings, ex.: '''y''', "than", ≠ '''ý''', "she". | ||
==Grammar== | ==Grammar== | ||