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===Suprasegmentals=== All [[Syllable|syllables]] begin with an onset, so that no two vowels may occur consecutively. Only vowels can be the nuclei of syllables. Stems are [[Syllable weight|heavy syllables]], whereas affixes tend to be light. Unlike many of the [[Athabascan languages]] to which it is related, Eyak is not [[Tone (linguistics)|tonal]]. It does not use variations in fundamental frequency (i.e. ‘pitch accents’) to convey contrast. [[Stress (linguistics)|Lexical stress]] usually falls on stems and/or [[Syllable weight|heavy syllables]]. In sequences of heavy syllables, the stress falls on the penultimate syllable, as in ''qʼahdiʼlah'' /qʼa̤ˈtɪ̰la̤/ “goodbye”.
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