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=== Stress === | === Stress === | ||
Skylandic has no lexical stress. That is, words on their own have no stressed syllable. Instead, it has '''''sentential stress''''' — stress on the sentence level. Stress only appears when words are combined together to form a complete sentence. The stress pattern of Skylandic sentences is always in '''iambs''' — syllable pairs consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable. In fact, Skylandic poetry is entirely based on this stress pattern but in specific counts — [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iambic_pentameter iambic pentameter]. | Skylandic has no lexical stress. That is, words on their own have no stressed syllable. Instead, it has '''''sentential stress''''' — stress on the sentence level. Stress only appears when words are combined together to form a complete sentence. The stress pattern of Skylandic sentences is always in '''iambs''' — syllable pairs consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable. In fact, Skylandic poetry is entirely based on this stress pattern but in specific counts — [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iambic_pentameter iambic pentameter]. <br><br> | ||
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'''<big><big>Nauvement Huie Ich Isen Ai Préseunu.</big></big>'''<br> | |||
[nov'mɑ̃.t‿ɥi 'iɕ i'zɑ̃.n‿ɛ 'pʁe.zøˌny] <br> | |||
"Exactly How I Planned It." | |||
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== Orthography == | == Orthography == | ||
Skylandic uses the same alphabet and grapheme-to-phoneme correspondence as French, again with minor differences. | Skylandic uses the same alphabet and grapheme-to-phoneme correspondence as French, again with minor differences. | ||