Is it “Camel-uh” or “Cam-ahl-uh”?

  • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works
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    5 months ago

    Every word has stress. You probably mean the first phoneme is stressed. And the “rum” sound you’re looking for is called the “schwa”

    • emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works
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      5 months ago

      Every word has stress.

      In most Indian languages, most words are unstressed. There is a distinction between long and short syllables, but that comes from vowel length, not stress. A few words (like him-AA-la-ya) do have stress, but this is the exception and usually happens due to conjugation.

      You probably mean the first phoneme is stressed.

      No, kamala is unstressed.

      And the “rum” sound you’re looking for is called the “schwa”

      Yes.

    • Paraneoptera@sopuli.xyz
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      5 months ago

      Not in classical Sanskrit. Vedic Sanskrit had pitch accent, which had been lost by the classical Sanskrit era. English has stress accent. But many languages do not have stress accent, and either have pitch accent or syllables are not accented at all.