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Where does word stress usually fall in modern Turkic languages?
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In modern Turkic languages, word stress—which typically manifests as a high pitch—generally falls on the final syllable of a word.1
While this is the standard pattern, there are exceptions; several eastern languages maintain a tendency toward initial stress, a feature that is believed to reflect an older linguistic state.1