- gemination, with some
Berber verbs forming their imperfective stem by
geminating one
consonant in
their perfective stem (e.g., [ftu] 'go! PF', [fttu] 'go...
-
always geminate when
between vowels, and /z/,
which is
always single.
Geminate plosives and
affricates are
realized as
lengthened closures.
Geminate fricatives...
- levels, "single" and "
geminate".
Estonian and some Sami
languages have
three phonemic lengths: short,
geminate, and long
geminate,
although the distinction...
-
effects of the
shift were the
following below.
Voiceless stops became long (
geminated)
voiceless fricatives following a vowel;
Voiceless stops became affricates...
- w may be
geminated (doubled),
though geminate r only
occurs in ideophones. (
Geminate consonants are
written double.) Q is
inherently geminate and may occur...
- table:
Spanish is
marked by
palatalization of the
Latin double consonants (
geminates) nn and ll (thus
Latin annum >
Spanish año, and
Latin anellum > Spanish...
- systems,
which represent the
sound of the language,
since short vowels and
geminate consonants, for example, do not
usually appear in
Arabic writing. As an...
-
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...
-
verbs ending in w (which
merge with
verbs ending in y).
Reformation of
geminate verbs, e.g., ḥalaltu 'I untied' → ḥalēt(u).
Conversion of
separate words...
- the
consonants n, m, r, w, or y. (In
words and
loanwords that
require geminating these consonants, ン (n), ム (mu), ル (ru), ウ (u), and イ (i) are usually...
