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Quite often Aoma places primary stress on the second syllable in words with two or more syllables. The stress supports the word inflection, and stressed vowels appear as more open and at front. | Quite often Aoma places primary stress on the second syllable in words with two or more syllables. The stress supports the word inflection, and stressed vowels appear as more open and at front. | ||
*In conjugated verbs, stress is placed on the last syllable. | *In conjugated verbs, stress is placed on the last syllable. | ||
*When two words with two syllables follow each other, the main stress is on the last word's last syllable. | |||
*If many one-syllable words come after each other, the second and the last words are stressed. | |||
*Since stressed syllables get a slightly higher pitch, it can carry on to the next syllable in long words. The longest words might sometimes get a peculiar up-down pattern. | |||
==Orthography== | ==Orthography== | ||