Editing Suret language (section)

==== Stress ====
Hakkari dialects are generally [[Isochrony|stress-timed]], whereas the Urmian and Iraqi Koine dialects may be more [[Syllable timing|syllable-timed]]:

*An example of stress timing is noticeable in the word "''qat''", an [[Conjunction (grammar)|adverb clause conjunction]] which translates to "so that" – The 'a' sound in "''qat''" is unstressed and thus would turn into a [[schwa]] if one would place the stress in the next word of the sentence, so; "''mīri qat āzekh''" becomes "''mīri qət āzekh''" ("I said that we go"). 
*Another example is observed in teen [[natural number|numerical]] range (13-19); In some dialects (particularly those of Hakkari), the words "''īštāser''" (sixteen) or "''arbāser''" (fourteen), among other teen numbers, the typically stressed vowel in the middle ([[Ā|long A]]) is reduced to a schwa, hence "īštəser" and "''arbəser''", respectively. 
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| filename     = Assyriantone.ogg
| title        = ''dīyeh'' ("his"), ''dīyéh'' ("theirs")
| description  = An unstressed ''-eh'' denotes a singular possessive form (masc.), whereas a stressed ''-éh'' is a third person [[Apostrophe#Plural possessive|plural possessive]].
| format       = [[Ogg]]
}}
Although Suret, like all Semitic languages, is not a [[tonal language]], a tonal stress is made on a plural possessive suffix -''éh'' (i.e. ''dīy'''éh'''''; "their") in the final vowel to [[pitch accent|tonally differentiate]] it from an unstressed -''eh'' (i.e. ''dīyeh''; "his"), which is a masculine [[Possessive determiner|singular possessive]], with a standard stress pattern falling on the penult. The -''eh'' used to denote a singular [[Third person (grammar)|third person]] masculine possessive (e.g. ''bābeh'', "his father"; ''aqleh'', "his leg") is present in most of the traditional dialects in [[Hakkari (historical region)|Hakkari]] and [[Nineveh Plains]], but not for Urmian and some Iraqi Koine speakers, who instead use -''ū'' for possessive "his" (e.g. ''bābū'', "his father"; ''aqlū'', "his leg"), whilst retaining the stress in -''éh'' for "their".<ref name="Solomon, Zomaya S.1994" />

This phenomenon however may not always be present, as some Hakkari speakers, especially those from Tyari and Barwar, would use analytic speech to denote possession. So, for instance, ''bābeh'' (literally, "father-his") would be uttered as ''bābā-id dīyeh'' (literally, "father-of his"). In Iraqi Koine and Urmian, the plural form and the third person plural possessive suffix of many words, such as ''wardeh'' and ''biyyeh'' ("flowers"/"eggs" and "their flower(s)"/"their eggs", respectively), would be [[homophone]]s were it not for the varying, distinctive stress on the penult or ultima.<ref>Fox, S. E., 1997, The Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Jilu, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz</ref>