Prosody

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Syllable shapes
Medial Final Unstressed Stressed
No hiatus Hiatus present
neutral tone[nb 1] falling tonerising tonemid-falling tone rising-falling tonerising-creaky tonefalling creaky tone alternate[nb 2]
V V V₁.V₁
Vx[nb 3] Vx Vx V₁.V₁x
V V V₁.V₂ V₁ː.V₂ V₁.V₁.V₂ V₁ː.V₂
Vx[nb 3] V₁.V₂x V₁ː.V₂x V₁.V₁.V₂x V₁ː.V₂x
ˈaw[nb 4] V.ˈaw V.ˈaw V.ˈa.aw
  1. Includes the continuation tone (belonging to non-initial syllables of multisyllabic words).
  2. magı’s alternate system where hiatus tones do not reduplicate any vowels, but leverage existing hiatuses in the word. In addition, /Vaw/ is not given special treatment in this system and remains initially stressed.
  3. 3.0 3.1 Stands for any of the three permissible codal consonants – /j/, /w/, /ŋ/ – which turn a preceding /u i o/ into its allophonic variant [ʊ ɪ ɔ] respectively, as well as eliminate any lengthening.
  4. Special-cased since it shifts stress.

Phone-based mora counts ([V] = 1 mora; [Vː], [Vx] = 2 morae; unchanged by magı’s alternate system):

neutral tone falling tonerising tonemid-falling tone rising-falling tonerising-creaky tonefalling creaky tone alternate
/V/ 1 2 2
/Vx/ 2 3
/VV/ 2 3 3
/VVx/ 3 4 4
/Vaw/ 3 4

Hiatus-based mora counts (each hiatus [.] adds 1 mora):

neutral tone falling tonerising tonemid-falling tone rising-falling tonerising-creaky tonefalling creaky tone alternate
/V/ 1 2
/Vx/
/VV/ 2 3 2
/VVx/
/Vaw/

Mixed hiatus- and phone-based mora counts (each hiatus [.], as well as drawn-out vowel [ː] adds 1 mora):

neutral tone falling tonerising tonemid-falling tone rising-falling tonerising-creaky tonefalling creaky tone alternate
/V/ 1 2 2
/Vx/ 1 1 2
/VV/ 2 3 3 3
/VVx/
/Vaw/ 2 2/3 3 3