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-==== Dialects ====
+===Vowels===
+{| class="wikitable"  style="margin:autmargin:auto;"
+|+caption | Vowel phonemes
+|-
+!
+! Front
+! Central
+! Back
+|- style="text-align:center;"
+! Close
+| i
+|
+| u
+|- style="text-align:center;"
+! Mid
+| e
+|
+| o
+|- style="text-align:center;"
+! Open
+|
+| a
+|
+|}
+=== Prosody ===
+Tevrés is a [[w:Isochrony#Syllable timing|syllable-timed language]] with [[w:Stress (linguistics)#Phonemic stress|phonemic stress]].  This means that each syllable takes approximately the same amount of time, stressed or unstressed, vowels do not reduce in unstressed syllables, and that stress cannot be determined purely by phonological rules.  However, stress does follow a few basic rules;
+* If a polysyllabic word ends in a vowel or the consonants ''s'' or ''n'', the penultimate syllable is stressed; e.g. ''ve'''jar'''te'', ''morra'''jo'''ten''.
+* If a polysyllabic word ends in any other consonants, the ultimate syllable is stressed; e.g. ''çi'''dej''''', ''sar'''cad'''''.
+Stress in words that do not conform to these rules is indicated with an acute accent (e.g. ''ha'''rín''''').  Often these words descend from regular penultimately stressed words that lost a final ''e'' after a sonorant (e.g. ''ha'''rín''''' from old ''ha'''ri'''ne'', ''Tev'''rés''''' from old ''Tev'''re'''sse''), or from loanwords or learned Aeranisms (e.g. '''''Fá'''çar'' from ''Faṣr'', '''''á'''pico'' from ''apicor'').  Sometimes, stress can have grammatical meaning, such as '''''lla'''vo'' ('I laugh') versus ''lla'''vó''''' ('I laughed').
+=== Dialects ===
 Due to centuries of separation, the culture of Tevrén between the north and the south form a stark contrast.  This contrast is noticeable in many everyday aspects of life, including the way people speak.  Southern dialects of Aeranir are considered to be 'softer' and 'more breathy' then harsher northern varieties.  In addition, the language of the Court at Combrienes shows some novel innovation, merging [[w:Voice (phonetics)|voiced and voiceless]] [[w:Sibilant|sibilants]].  The following chart breaks down some of the key differences;
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 * <nowiki>*</nowiki> the phonemes /s̺/ and /ɬ/ are written with doubled consonants ''ss'' and ''łł'' respectively between vowels.
 * <nowiki>**</nowiki> the phonemes /z̺/ and /ɮ/ (written ''s'' and ''ł'') occur only between vowels, or next to a voiced consonant.
-===Vowels===
-{| class="wikitable"  style="margin:autmargin:auto;"
-|+caption | Vowel phonemes
-|-
-!
-! Front
-! Central
-! Back
-|- style="text-align:center;"
-! Close
-| i
-|
-| u
-|- style="text-align:center;"
-! Mid
-| e
-|
-| o
-|- style="text-align:center;"
-! Open
-|
-| a
-|
-|}
-=== Prosody ===
-Tevrés is a [[w:Isochrony#Syllable timing|syllable-timed language]] with [[w:Stress (linguistics)#Phonemic stress|phonemic stress]].  This means that each syllable takes approximately the same amount of time, stressed or unstressed, vowels do not reduce in unstressed syllables, and that stress cannot be determined purely by phonological rules.  However, stress does follow a few basic rules;
-* If a polysyllabic word ends in a vowel or the consonants ''s'' or ''n'', the penultimate syllable is stressed; e.g. ''ve'''jar'''te'', ''morra'''jo'''ten''.
-* If a polysyllabic word ends in any other consonants, the ultimate syllable is stressed; e.g. ''çi'''dej''''', ''sar'''cad'''''.
-Stress in words that do not conform to these rules is indicated with an acute accent (e.g. ''ha'''rín''''').  Often these words descend from regular penultimately stressed words that lost a final ''e'' after a sonorant (e.g. ''ha'''rín''''' from old ''ha'''ri'''ne'', ''Tev'''rés''''' from old ''Tev'''re'''sse''), or from loanwords or learned Aeranisms (e.g. '''''Fá'''çar'' from ''Faṣr'', '''''á'''pico'' from ''apicor'').  Sometimes, stress can have grammatical meaning, such as '''''lla'''vo'' ('I laugh') versus ''lla'''vó''''' ('I laughed').
 ==Nouns==