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====Stress==== | ====Stress==== | ||
====Intonation==== | ====Intonation==== | ||
Af Mexee | Af Mexee has a pitch accent (I think). There are two tones: low and high. These are not normally indicated in writing, although this article mostly does. A high tone is indicated with an acute accent, while a circumflex denotes a vowel that has a high tone unless the following word has an high tone. | ||
e.g. ''wâa'' + ''taghi'' → ''wáa taghi'' | e.g. ''wâa'' + ''taghi'' → ''wáa taghi'' | ||
:''wâa'' + ''tághi'' → ''waa tághi'' | :''wâa'' + ''tághi'' → ''waa tághi'' | ||
With long vowels and diphthongs, there are three possibilities: | With long vowels and short diphthongs, there are three possibilities: | ||
*Falling: ''áa'' (low-high) | *Falling: ''áa'' (low-high) | ||
*Rising ''aá'' (high-low) | *Rising ''aá'' (high-low) | ||
*Low: ''aa'' (low-low) | *Low: ''aa'' (low-low) | ||
With long diphthongs, there are four possibilities: | |||
*Falling: ''áay'' (high-low-low) | |||
*Falling-Rising: ''aáy'' (low-high-low) | |||
*Rising: ''aaý'' (low-low-high) | |||
*Low: ''aay'' (low-low-low) | |||
===Phonotactics=== | ===Phonotactics=== | ||