The Mostec dialect has long and short stressed vowels and a syllabic r: in the standard language the long ones have the acute accent, the short ones the circumflex accent. There are also the short stressed syllables n, á and a in monosyllables (in the standard language these are short accented vowels), and words where the stress has shifted to the left. Unstressed vowels are all short, while all the standard stressed o sounds have in the Mostec dialect become u. The stressed semi-vowel is
pronounced n, the unstressed i (the latter replaces the former stressed m and ü). The Mostec accent is now only dynamic, while before it was tonemic. In brief, vowels that formerly had the acute accent are now long vowels and those with the circumflex accent are now short vowels, while former short vowels have remained so; in its morpho-phonology the dialect has quite a few of its own solutions.
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