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Pitch accent in Arakene
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1. Accentuation
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Arakene is a pitch-accent language. Accented syllables can be either high (marked with a dot underneath the letter), or falling (marked with an acute accent).
| Unaccented | High accent | Falling accent |
|---|---|---|
| a | ạ | á |
| e | ẹ | é |
| è | ệ | ê |
| i | ị | í |
| y | ỵ | ý |
| o | ọ | ó |
| u | ụ | ú |
The type of accent affect the intonation of the entire word, which is sometimes more noticeable than the pitch of the accented syllable. This intonation depends on the number of syllables proximate to the accent and their position relative to the accent.
| High accent | Falling accent | |
|---|---|---|
| One syllable | (V˨.)V˥(.V˦) | (V˦.)V˥˨(.V˩) |
| Two syllables | (V˦.V˨.)V˥(.V˨.V˦) | (V˦.V˧.)V˥˨(.V˨.V˩.) |
Arakene has (or used to have) weight-sensitive stress. Words with no heavy syllables have a high accent, and ones with a heavy syllable have a falling accent on that syllable. This is why diphthongs cannot have a high accent, since they are heavy. In a word with multiple 'heavy' syllables, the accent will fall on the rightmost one. If a suffix with a falling accent is added to a word (like INEInessive (case)
'inside' -á or COMPComparative (comparison)
e.g. 'better' -né), the initial accent is dropped.
Ex. dákhe (mountain) + á => dakheá (inside the mountain)
or qsí (important) + né => qsiné (more important)
With verbs, the opposite happens; the suffix marking usually has a falling accent, except if the stem has an inherent falling accent.
Ex. kal- (to jump) => kaláo (I jump)
but ámèk- (to understand) => ámèkao (I understand) ✎ Edit Article ✖ Delete Article
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