- 1st. As ordinarily, and without any particular force.
- 2nd. As ordinarily, but with force in its pronunciation.
- 3rd. By a guttural suspended emission of the voice, and without force.
- 4th. By a guttural suspended emission of the voice, and with force.
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The first way does not need any orthographical sign. But the last three ones require a special orthographical accent in each ease.
When a vowel is pronounced as ordinarily, but with more force than others in the same word, the proper accent is the acute (´).
When a vowel is pronounced with a suspended guttural sound, but without any force, the corresponding accent is the grave (`).
And when a vowel is pronounced with a suspended guttural sound with force, its accent is the circumflex (ˆ), which is simply the combination of the two foregoing accents, as this last represents a sound that is the combination of the two sounds, suspended guttural and with force.
Therefore, in writing the word quita, for example, in its three different meanings and according to its three different pronunciations, it must be as follows:
| quitá | (we) | quità | (see) | quitâ | (look at). |
RULE. There are three different accents in Bisayan: the acute (´); the grave (`); and the angular, which we may call improperly circumflex (ˆ).
The acute is located wherever it is needed, either at the beginning or in the middle or at the ending of the word. Examples: