Stress falls, with occasional exception, on the second to last syllable of each word. For example: sreASra mDAtla where the capitalized syllables in each word are those which are stressed. 
Occasionally words have ultimate stress. This occurs most commonly on two-syllable words but does have exceptions. 
Occasional situations occur wherein the first syllable of a multisyllabic word is stressed following a single syllable word which is left unstressed. This occurs in phrases and common parts of speech. For example the greeting "Kipe. I svare." would be stressed thusly: kiPE. i SVAre.

Stress lies on the penultimate syllable in most words; there are derivational processes which can move stress to other syllables.  In bisyllabic words. stress can never be on the final syllable.

The majority of words are accented on the second-to-last syllable, with the following complications:
•	For the purposes of this rule, V₁ʔV₁ counts as a single syllable. Thus, bawánzuʔu, ʔenwaraháʔari
•	Inflected forms of words may sometimes retain the accent of the citation form.
•	Clitic chains involving ba may be accented either on the penult or on the first syllable. Bákutu, bakútu.
•	A few words simply have anomalous lexical accents: e.g. digepí, ʔiná, numú