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authorNgô Ngọc Đức Huy <huyngo@disroot.org>2021-10-29 16:57:22 +0700
committerNgô Ngọc Đức Huy <huyngo@disroot.org>2021-10-29 16:57:22 +0700
commit2d0d57efe803c66eaf54f102577a67dc2453ab9d (patch)
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Change the sound to sound better
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@@ -34,6 +34,8 @@ Ravna consists of 9 vowels.
 - /ə/ occurs as unstressed /e/
 - /ɨ/ occurs as unstressed /i/, which disappears when possible
 - /a/ and /o/ have umlauts /ɛ/ and /u/ respectively.
+- In verb conjugation ending, /e/ is realized as [ɛ] instead of [ə]. Similarly,
+    /i/ is realized as [i] instead of [ɨ]
 
 ## Umlaut
 
@@ -57,8 +59,9 @@ If the word has more than 3 syllables:
 - The secondary stress is on the third syllable.
 - The high pitches are on the stresses, and low pitches are on other syllable.
 
-These rules don't apply for prefixes---prefixes are never stressed.  For
-prefixed words, stress rules apply starting from the main stem.
+These rules don't apply for prefixes—prefixes are never stressed.  For
+prefixed words, stress rules apply starting from the main stem.  The pitches
+are also reversed for these words
 
 Another exception in compound: