Chakavian ) maintain the original accentual system unchanged.
2.
Regardless of vernacular differences, all three standard languages exclusively promote the Neo-Shtokavian four-accentual system.
3.
Such an accentual system is very common in the world's languages ( Proto-Indo-European.
4.
The previously described accentual system primarily applies to the Western Aukataitian dialect on which the standard Lithuanian literary language is based.
5.
His grammar of " Illyrian " was the first Croatian grammar describing the four-accentual system of the Neoatokavian dialect.
6.
There is still no consensus among Balto-Slavists on the precise details of the development of Balto-Slavic accentual system.
7.
Some Slovenian dialects ( see below ) maintain all original properties of the accentual system, but with various changes in multisyllabic words.
8.
The Lithuanian accentual system inherited another very important aspect from the Proto-Balto-Slavic period, and that is the Slovene.
9.
Consequently, in the Slavic languages that retain it, vowel length is often a suprasegmental feature tied to the accentual system rather phonemes.
10.
The Proto-Indo-European accent was completely reworked in Balto-Slavic, with far-reaching consequences for accentual systems of the modern daughter languages.