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Stressed syllables have their vowels marked with an accute accent to denote its stress. Historically, [[Classical Nâuxu]] had a single pitch accent, the falling tone, akin to the pitch accent in [[w:Swedish language|Swedish]] or [[w:Serbo-Croatian language|Serbo-Croatian]]. Orthographically, this is most often represented by a circumflex accent, ⟨◌̂⟩, such as in the word ''N'''â''' uuxu'' "[Classical] Nâuxu", [[Help:IPA|[nâ ʉː.hʉ]]]. | Stressed syllables have their vowels marked with an accute accent to denote its stress. Historically, [[Classical Nâuxu]] had a single pitch accent, the falling tone, akin to the pitch accent in [[w:Swedish language|Swedish]] or [[w:Serbo-Croatian language|Serbo-Croatian]]. Orthographically, this is most often represented by a circumflex accent, ⟨◌̂⟩, such as in the word ''N'''â''' uuxu'' "[Classical] Nâuxu", [[Help:IPA|[nâ ʉː.hʉ]]]. | ||
== | ==Grammar== | ||
===Word order=== | |||
Nawuhu is primarily an SOV(subject-object-verb) language. However, in a phrase where there is no object, the word order is verb-initial. However, if the object is omitted but still implied, the word order remains as the standard SV. Thus, "I am", would be ''í ja'', lit. "am I", while "I am a person" would be ''ja í pida’a'', lit. "I am person a". | |||
When forming a question(or a proposition, which uses roughly the same structure), the word order becomes VSO(verb-subject-object). Thus, though "I have a cat" would be "ja éppia łún'', the question "Do you have a cat?" would be "łún ja éppia?". | |||
===Nouns=== | ===Nouns=== | ||
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