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 ===Stress===
 Stress is weak to nonexistent in Modern Anbirese.
-===Pitch accent===
-Pitch accent is phonemic in Standard Anbirese, and often distinguishes different grammatical forms of the same word.
-Each word has one of two possible pitch accents:
-#High: high and level, falls off word-finally; unmarked
-#Rising (or low, or peaking): starts low and rises, peaks at the second syllable; transcribed with an acute accent
-For example:
-*''skaen'' /skên/ (high tone) = 'a friend (sg)'; ''n skaen'' /ɨn skên/ = 'the friend'
-*''skáen'' /skěn/ (rising tone) = 'friends (pl)'; ''n skáen'' /ɨn skěn/ = 'the friends'
-*''aeli'' (high tone) = 'loves (present tense)'
-*''áeli'' (rising tone) = 'loved (past tense)'
-A handful of dialects lack pitch accent.
 ===Intonation===