Vowels have inherent tones, but these are never contrastive, and both lexical stress (when present) and prosodic stress always take precedence. The inherent vowel tones are as follows:
plain, short or long: high
rhotic: low
breathy: falling or low
fronting/closing diphthongs: rising
backing diphthongs: falling
Consonants may also affect inherent vowel tone contours.
Editor's note: This arrangement of pitch contours was not a planned part of the conlang, and actually developed organically.
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