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Syllables containing a high tone tend to be stressed. | Syllables containing a high tone tend to be stressed. | ||
====Intonation==== | ====Intonation==== | ||
Af Mexee has a pitch accent | Af Mexee has a pitch accent system. The tone-bearing unit is the mora. 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'' | ||