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Diphthongs are common in Teonaht; two of them are incorporated into the alphabet as you seen above (ai and o). | Diphthongs are common in Teonaht; two of them are incorporated into the alphabet as you seen above (ai and o). | ||
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Stress in Teonaht has nothing to do with the length of the vowel, but rather the pitch of the syllable, which is slightly raised, and the extra plosive quality of the consonant that heads it (hence the use of double letters seemed natural to them). Teonaht has some rigid rules about "normal" stress of multi-syllable words. The normal stress for two and three syllable words is on the first syllable: | |||
:'''''OR-wem, NY-ka-nel''''' | |||
Abnormal stress is indicated with a '''''doubling''''' of the initial consonant in the syllable, or the dominant vowel in a juxtaposition of vowels. Ultimate and penultimate stress, then, are considered abnormal, so the vast number of words that have this stress pattern must be written this way: | |||
:''py'''tt'''ela; my'''ee'''bi, Ti'''nnalt''''' | |||
Exceptions are when the digraphs "ht," "hd," "hs," and "hz" end a syllable that comes before another one beginning with "t," "d," "s," and "z": Lehttel /'lETtEl/ ("fiery") is not stressed on the second syllable-- but Ahttteyly /aT'teili/ (a woman's name) is. Note the triple "t." The first "t" belongs to the "ht" digraph ending the first syllable, and the second two signal the abnormal stress on the penultimate syllable. Brihhtil /brI'TIl/ ("fog") is how you spell a word where the stressed syllable begins with "ht"--you double the "h," not the "t." | |||
Generally four syllable words are stressed on the second: ''es'''tel'''vema''; five on the third: ''Era'''hen'''ahil''; six on the first and fourth: '''''ta'''tily'''na'''kõse''. This rule is more academic than descriptive of actual Teonaht stress patterns, and seems to have been an imposed grammatical convention. | |||
==Morphology== | ==Morphology== | ||
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