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Velar nasals /ŋ/ and /ŋʷ/ cannot occur word initially. | Velar nasals /ŋ/ and /ŋʷ/ cannot occur word initially. | ||
===Stress=== | ===Stress and Tone=== | ||
There is both a stress and a tone system, which interact with each other. | |||
Stress falls on either the last or the second last syllable of a word. The stressed syllable is pronounced louder than unstressed syllables. The pitch depends on the tone. | |||
Tone is assigned at the word level, rather than to individual syllables. There are three phonemic tones, High, Low and Falling. | |||
Words with High Tone have high pitch on all syllables other the stressed syllable, which is pronounced with even higher pitch e.g. /waˈjəʔma/ (H) - "llama" (genitive) is pronounced [wɞ́ˈjɪ̋ʔmá], /tɕaˈbˤaⁿ/ (H) - "Japan" is pronounced [tɕɐ́ˈbˤɑ̋ⁿ]. | |||
Words with Low Tone have mid pitch on all syllables other than the stressed syllable, which is pronounced with an extra low pitch e.g. /waˈməwaⁿ/ (L) - "mountain" (genitive) is pronounced [wāˈmʊ̏wāⁿ]. | |||
Words with Falling Tone always have stress on the second last syllable. Their pronunciation depends on the vowel length of the stressed vowel. If the vowel is short and non-nasalised, there is high pitch on all syllables up to and including the stressed syllable, and low pitch on the final syllable e.g./tsaˈɲeɳə/ (HL) - "channel", "strait" is pronounced [tsǽˈɲéɳʌ̀]. However, if the stressed vowel is long or nasalised, then it has falling pitch e.g. /waˈbiːdˤə/ (HL) - "boat" (genitive) is pronounced [wáˈbêːdˤʌ̀]. | |||
===Phonotactics=== | ===Phonotactics=== | ||