- languages, such as English, do not have word-internal
phonemic consonant geminates.
Consonant gemination and
vowel length are
independent in
languages like...
- levels, "single" and "
geminate".
Estonian and some Sami
languages have
three phonemic lengths: short,
geminate, and long
geminate,
although the distinction...
- both
singleton or
geminated.
Geminated consonants shorten the
preceding vowel (or
block phonetic lengthening) and the
first geminated element is unreleased...
- of
between 82% and 86%. A
notable feature of
Luganda phonology is its
geminate consonants and
distinctions between long and
short vowels.
Speakers generally...
- w may be
geminated (doubled),
though geminate r only
occurs in ideophones. (
Geminate consonants are
written double.) Q is
inherently geminate and may occur...
-
approximant [ʎ] is most
often realised as a
singleton or
geminate lateral [ʎ(ː)] or a
singleton or
geminate fricative [ʝ(ː)], and
sometimes as a
glide [j] (cf...
- obstruent,
resulting in a
geminate (that is, double) consonant. The ****imilated /Q/
remains unreleased and thus the
geminates are
phonetically long consonants...
-
appears as a tsu
reduced in size: The main use of the
sokuon is to mark a
geminate consonant,
which is
represented in most
romanization systems by the doubling...
- -l and the en****ics lu, la, lo, los or les. This is
pronounced as a
geminated ⟨l⟩ /ll/. For example, val-lo ("it is
worth it").
Another variation of...
-
geminate (double) consonants.
Since aspiration of a
geminate consonant is only
phonetically detectable on the last
consonant of a cluster,
geminate kh...