Carpathian language: Difference between revisions

Standard Carpathian and most of the Carpathian dialects, have mobile pitch accent. There are three types of tones:

*Rising, acute or tone-1 — rising tone if followed by another syllable, or a brief rise followed by a long fall, if followed by a pause: ''dílgas'' [ˈdíl.gɑ̄s] “long (masculine)” if followed by another word, or [ˈdíl.gɑ̀s] if followed by a pause; ''rankā́'' [ˈrɑ̂ŋ.kɑ̀ː] “hand” if followed by a pause; The syllable preceding stressed syllable receives an [[w:Upstep|upstep]] , when the stressed syllable is followed by pause.

*Falling or tone-3 – short falling or low tone: ''ràgas'' [ˈrɑ̀.gɑ̄s] (Western ''rògas'' [ˈrò.gɑ̄s]) “horn”. The stressed syllable receives a downstep if the preceeding word has either tone-1 or tone-2.

Tones 1 and 2 are only possible for long syllables – those containing either a long monophthong, a diphthong, or a short vowel followed by a sonorant in a closed syllable. Short stressed syllables receive tone-3 by default. Unstressed syllables harmonise with the stressed syllable, they do not receive a distinct tone on their own, but keep the pitch height of the stressed syllable.

==Grammar==

The first prescriptive printed grammar of the Carpathian language – Grammatica Carpathica was published in 1771 in Vienna, written in Latin.