- Although stress in Mirad is not marked and is not phonemic, i.e. not semantically distinctive, in all words of more than one syllable, the stress occurs on the last, non-final vowel, including glided vowels. The following chart gives some examples:
Stress
| Mirad Word |
With Stress and Syllabification Marked
|
| tejna....vital |
tej-na
|
| igay....quickly |
i-gay1
|
| alayn....eleventh |
a-layn
|
| Mirad....Mirad |
Mi-rad
|
| booka....tired |
bo-o-ka2
|
| bookan....fatigue |
bo-o-kan
|
| akea....winning |
a-ke-a
|
| oyse....lacks |
oy-se
|
| byoskyin....pendulum |
byos-kyin
|
| pyaon....wave |
pya-on
|
| tooyba....female |
to-oy-ba
|
| yansauna....common |
yan-sa-u-na
|
- 1 Here ay is a single post-y-glided vowel, and final, so it is not stressed.
- 2 Two vowels in a row are pronounced in two syllables.
- Here is a small passage where the stress of vowels in shown by boldfacing:
- Hya tobi taje yiva ay gea be utfiz ay doyivi. Yit bulwe texyaf ay tyaf ay yeyfe hyuitaxler tidyenay.
- All men are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act toward one another as brothers.