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Asári has a relatively small number of individual phonemes, which is what makes it so easy for other species to learn and one of the reasons it is the main administrative language of the Citadel Council. | |||
===Stress=== | |||
Stress falls on the first syllable of a word, unless specified otherwise by an accented vowel. Vowels in stressed syllables are always long, if a length distinction can be made for that vowel. This can change the meaning of seeming homophonic words: | |||
*''teporu'' [te:'pɔ,rʉ] (high, adj.) vs. ''tepóru'' [tɛ,po:'rʉ] (gate, n.) | |||