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 ====Length and Stress====
-Vowel length is distinctive in Ín Duári, and is indicated in the orthography by acute accents over the lengthened vowels.  Additionally, the acute accent in ''ú'' and ''í'' also signify vowel quality.  Since vowel length affects the stress; the acute accent also indicates the location of the primary stress of the word.
+Vowel length is distinctive in Nidâri and is indicated by macrons.  The phoneme /ɒ:/ is inherently long and indicated by a macron <â> in the ''Vannâri'' orthography.  Stress usually falls on the last syllable, but with certain affixes, whether inflectional or derivational, the stress shifts to the penultimate, e.g. ''jandarme'' /jæn'darmɛ/ "healer, doctor" (the affix ''-mɛ'' derives occupational nouns).
-Vowel length is almost always associated with syllable stress.  As a general rule, long vowels do not occur in CVCC clusters, although some exceptions arise, as in ''mínþir'' (exhaustion).  If two or more long vowels occur in a word, the final long vowel is stressed.
 ====Intonation====