Duhumbi Phonology - Syllabic and Word Stress

In Duhumbi, stress in general is non-distinctive, prosodic, and relatively unpronounced. In both disyllabic and polysyllabic words, stress falls on the first syllable. This also holds for polymorphemic lexemes, such as inflected words with suffixes. In glossary items in the Duhumbi lexicon, stress is indicated by a stress mark [ˈ] before the stressed syllable, whenever it is not predictable. Phrase stress is generally initial and falling towards the end of the phrase, combined with dependant-head word order in which subject/object precede the verb and we find postpositions rather than prepositions, although nouns always precede adjectives, but adverbs generally precede verbs. Word order is relatively flexible. 

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