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====Cluster Reduction between Syllables with Non-Primary Stress==== | ====Cluster Reduction between Syllables with Non-Primary Stress==== | ||
The number of consonant clusters which can occur intervocalically between syllables with non-primary stress is dramatically reduced. Somehow. Probably. I think. Also, stress is primarily dactylic, somehow, probably, I think. | The number of consonant clusters which can occur intervocalically between syllables with non-primary stress is dramatically reduced. Somehow. Probably. I think. | ||
Also, stress is primarily dactylic, somehow, probably, I think. | |||
Particles and affixes may be reduplicated in order to maintain the dactylic meter, especially in formal or poetic speech. | |||
===Orthography=== | ===Orthography=== | ||