Triparic Accent

Syllable Weight Rules

These are lifted straight A syllable is short, unless one of the following conditions are met:

1. It contains a diphthong, which in Triparik means one of: ä, æ, ø, ŏ.
2. Its vowel is placed before more than one consonant.
   • Note that x counts as two consonants (/ks/).
   • Likewise cz and j count as two consonants, since they are affricates and thus "heavy" sounds.
   • A stop-liquid cluster (b, d, g, p, t, or k followed by r or l), by itself, counts as just one consonant.