10-21-2008, 08:03 PM
shlomo bar Sinko,
You kind of got one of them, please see below!
There's two types of stresses, as mentioned before:
1) If we have a closed syllable at the end of a word we stress on the last syllable => ex: mo-ran => "ran"
2) If we have a open syllable at the end of a word we stress on the before last syllable => ex: a-lo-ho => "lo"
P.S. The dominant sound in any syllable is its vowel; that is why if you ever look at Syriac sheet music, you'll notice that each note corresponds to a vowel and never to a consonant.
push bashlomo,
keefa-morun
bar Sinko Wrote:I see, so in Western Aramaic/Syriac, you stress on the vowel before the last consonant. This is what I thought intuitively.
You kind of got one of them, please see below!
There's two types of stresses, as mentioned before:
1) If we have a closed syllable at the end of a word we stress on the last syllable => ex: mo-ran => "ran"
2) If we have a open syllable at the end of a word we stress on the before last syllable => ex: a-lo-ho => "lo"
P.S. The dominant sound in any syllable is its vowel; that is why if you ever look at Syriac sheet music, you'll notice that each note corresponds to a vowel and never to a consonant.
push bashlomo,
keefa-morun