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=== Tone === | === Tone === | ||
Fásriyya is a [[w:Tone (linguistics)|tonal language]] with two tone levels, high and low, with low being the default tone. Contour tones (i.e. rising or falling tone melodies) are usually analysed as separate tones occurring on adjacent tone bearing units (morae) and thus have no phonemic status. Tone may be both lexical (an inherent feature of a word) or grammatical. | Fásriyya is a [[w:Tone (linguistics)|tonal language]] with two tone levels, high (H) and low (L), with low being the default tone. Contour tones (i.e. rising or falling tone melodies) are usually analysed as separate tones occurring on adjacent tone bearing units (morae) and thus have no phonemic status. Tone may be both lexical (an inherent feature of a word) or grammatical. High tones are marked by use of the acute accent (⟨á⟩, ⟨í⟩, ⟨ú⟩) on short vowels, with low tone unmarked. Atonal long vowels (long vowels with a simple low tone) are written with a macron (⟨ā⟩, ⟨ē⟩, ⟨ī⟩, ⟨ū⟩), whilst tonal vowels are written doubled, with an acute accent placed on either the first, second, or both vowels where appropriate. | ||
==== Root tone ==== | |||
Lexical tone is a feature of Fásriyya's triconsonantal root system, with each root carrying one of the five tone melodies. For example, the root of the word '''''báskiru''''' ('it blooms') is not simple ''s-k-r'', but rather '''''s-k-r HL''''', with a high-low tone melody. These melodies play themselves across any words derived from their associated stems. | |||
== Verbs == | == Verbs == | ||