Stress

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, where the syllables are separated by a plus sign and are marked with a stress (ˈ)

Stress

Mirad Word	IPA
tejna....vital	/ˈteʒ+na/
igay....quickly	/ˈi+gay/ 1
alayn....eleventh	/a+ˈlajn/
Mirad....Mirad	/Mi+ˈrad/
booka....tired	/bo+ˈo+ka/ 2
bookan....fatigue	/bo+o+ˈkan/
akea....winning	/a+ˈke+a/
boyxe....deprives	/ˈboj+ʃe/
byoskyin....pendulum	/bjos+ˈkjɪn/ 3
pyaon....wave	/pya+ˈon/
tooyba....female	/to+ˈoj+ba/
yansauna....common	/jan+sa+ˈu+na/
bikiu....take care	/bi+ˈki+u/
jwatua....warned	/ʒwa+ˈtu+a/
caulk....copper	/t͡ʃa+ˈulk/
testaye....has understood	/tɛs+ˈta+je/ 4

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.

³ The letter i is pronounced like the short i in Eng. kin when in a closed syllable (i.e. one ending in a consonant).

⁴ The vowel e is pronounced like the short e in Eng. vest when in a closed syllable.

Here is a small passage where the stress of vowels in shown by underlining:

• Hya tobi taje yiva ay gea be utfiz ay doyivi. Yit bulwe texyaf ay vyaotyaf ay yeyfe hyuitaxler gel tidi.
• 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.

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