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:
Stress
Mirad Word
With Stress and Syllabification Marked
tejna....vital
tej-na
igay....quickly
i-gay1
alayn....eleventh
a-layn
Mirad....Mirad
Mi-rad
booka....tired
bo-o-ka2
bookan....fatigue
bo-o-kan
akea....winning
a-ke-a
oyse....lacks
oy-se
byoskyin....pendulum
byos-kyin
pyaon....wave
pya-on
tooyba....female
to-oy-ba
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.
Here is a small passage where the stress of vowels in shown by boldfacing:
Hya tobi taje yiva ay gea be utfiz ay doyivi. Yit bulwe texyaf ay tyaf ay yeyfe hyuitaxler tidyenay.
All men are born equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act toward one another as brothers.
