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While Havˁen has a simple stress and vowel reduction of the unstressed syllables, both Thadpalmé varieties have pitch accent. There are three pitches: "high" or "rising", "low" or "neutral" and "falling". THadpalmé later lost the lfalling tone as a distinct phonemic unit. An example of the pitch accent system is ''hókya'' [hó.ꜜcɑ̀] “spring”, 'hokya'' [ꜜhò.cɑ] “flat land” and '' | While Havˁen has a simple stress and vowel reduction of the unstressed syllables, both Thadpalmé varieties have pitch accent. There are three pitches: "high" or "rising", "low" or "neutral" and "falling". THadpalmé later lost the lfalling tone as a distinct phonemic unit. An example of the pitch accent system is ''hókya'' [hó.ꜜcɑ̀] “spring”, 'hokya'' [ꜜhò.cɑ] “flat land” and ''mikháyes'' [mi.kʰɑ́.ꜜjès] “sun”. | ||
===Khad languages=== | ===Khad languages=== | ||