Manado Malay - Word Stress

Word Stress

Most words have stress on the pre-final syllable:

  • words in from Bahasah Manado in in the mixture of Portuguese, Spanish, and Dutch
kaDEra 'chair'
STEnga 'half'
DOi 'money'

But there are also many words with final stress:

buTUL 'right, correct, true'
toLOR 'egg' saBONG 'soap'

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Famous quotes containing the words word and/or stress:

    They made a paction tween them twa,
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