Stress Rules
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2. List of Roots
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4. Stress Rules
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5. Verb Forms
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For most words in Fahrena, stress is rather regular. If a word ends in a consonant or consonant cluster, the stress will most often fall on the final syllable. If a word ends in a single vowel, stress falls on the second-to-last syllable. Diphthongs, however, take precedence, so if a word ends in a diphthong, stress will fall on that final syllable.
The dependence of stress on the final letter of the word means final -h must be pronounced. For example, the city of Mathayyah would be pronounced /mæθæj'jæh/ with the stress on the final syllable /jæh/. If the final h were not pronounced, stress would be on /θæj/, which it does not. Therefore, final -h must always be pronounced.
For words that have a glottal stop, stress works slightly differently. Take the word Qatu'arrabra, the "Parliament" of Al-Fahan. According to the basic stress rules, this should have the stress on the second-to-last syllable, the /ræb/. However, when a word has at least two syllables on each side of the glottal stop, each side is treated independently for stress. Thus, "Qatu" and "arrabra" both have their second-to-last syllables stressed (since both end in a vowel), giving /'qɑt̪uʔɑr'ræːbræ/.
If a word has fewer than two syllables on each side of a glottal stop, however, stress falls where it would it the glottal stop were any other consonant. For example, the verb "la'ana" is simply pronounced /læ'ʔænæ/.
For monosyllabic words, such as "hra", meaning "sun", stress obviously must fall on the only syllable. The definite articles "al", "il", and "sul" do not affect this stress. Il-hra, "the sun", is pronounced /i'hræ/, even though, by basic stress rules, stress should fall on the second-to-last syllable. This will only affect monosyllabic words ending in a vowel, as they would be the only ones to suddenly gain a second-to-last syllable. ✎ Edit Article ✖ Delete Article
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