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===Suprasegmentals=== | |||
====Tonic accent==== | |||
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Asaari uses a a system of '''tonic accent''', or [[w:pitch accent|pitch accent]]. A tonic accent is different to stress accent in that the prominent syllable in the word is distinguished by [[tone]] rather than volume. The tonic accent is also different to a purely tonal system in that the number of tonal syllables in a word is limited. | |||
In Asaari, there is at most one tonic syllable in a word. The position of the tonic syllable determines the tonal pattern of the whole word. The distinction is binary, that is, a tonic syllable may be either high or low. | |||
====Prosody==== | |||
==Orthography== | ==Orthography== | ||