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Long vowels underwent diphthongization very early, but yielded different results in Kei and Tar Eyalian; however, the vowel "ā" merged with "ō" in Tarnan first, but remained distinct in Keian. Eyalian short vowels also underwent assimilation, called ''hiemlata'' ("becoming similar"). A short high vowel lowered to a close-mid one before low vowels, for example: ''jėkar'' "you have gone", but ''jiki'' "you go" from ''jikki'' "to go". In Keian this change was often levelled by analogy in almost all verbs and in some nouns. Suffixes which trigger consonant gemination usually block this change, for example ''fulla'' "breathing" has "u" instead of an expected "ȯ". | Long vowels underwent diphthongization very early, but yielded different results in Kei and Tar Eyalian; however, the vowel "ā" merged with "ō" in Tarnan first, but remained distinct in Keian. Eyalian short vowels also underwent assimilation, called ''hiemlata'' ("becoming similar"). A short high vowel lowered to a close-mid one before low vowels, for example: ''jėkar'' "you have gone", but ''jiki'' "you go" from ''jikki'' "to go". In Keian this change was often levelled by analogy in almost all verbs and in some nouns. Suffixes which trigger consonant gemination usually block this change, for example ''fulla'' "breathing" has "u" instead of an expected "ȯ". | ||
===Prosody=== | |||
Stress (''oaveulo'') can be placed on either the first (initial) or the second syllable. Eyalian had a pitch accent in the past, called ''almoara'' ("the pleasing one") or ''eulo almoan'', and many mountainous dialects still possess this feature. Usually elision of a plosive lead to the rising accent, while the absence of elision resulted in the falling accent, for example ''*qena'' "language" resulted in éna [ɛ̌.nɑ]. Falling pitch was default and thus conditional, but could sometimes become "independent" or "marked" under certain phonological processes: ''alòama'' "woman" > ''jàloama'' "this woman" (in the latter word the accent falls on the short syllable instead of the expected long one, like in the former word), or ''jùmui'' ("completely" from "ix qomu in" "in one piece"). Later both pitches coincided, but the rising accent shifted the stress to the next syllable, hence modern [ɛ.ˈnɑ]. There is no regular way to predict the position of stress and it needs to be memorised. Most of the words have one accented syllable, with the exception of compond words. | |||
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