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===Prosody=== | ===Prosody=== | ||
====Intonation==== | ====Intonation==== | ||
Kaikiwan has two types of tones: '''rising''' and '''falling''', and they are only used on vowels. | Kaikiwan has two types of tones: '''rising''' and '''falling''', and they are only used on independent vowels and diphthong-initial vowels e.g. /a/ → /á/ and /ai/ → /ái/. | ||
Kaikiwan intonation is technically phonemic, meaning semantics can change based on tone pronunciation alone, though in practice very few words distinguish between themselves solely on tone. A commonly used example of this in the language itself would be the word for the islands of Hawai'i, ''húwui'', and the word for "salmon", ''hùwui'', although ''hùwui'' is an archaic term, and most modern speakers prefer the term ''sámo'', based on the English term. | Kaikiwan intonation is technically phonemic, meaning semantics can change based on tone pronunciation alone, though in practice very few words distinguish between themselves solely on tone. A commonly used example of this in the language itself would be the word for the islands of Hawai'i, ''húwui'', and the word for "salmon", ''hùwui'', although ''hùwui'' is an archaic term, and most modern speakers prefer the term ''sámo'', based on the English term. | ||