-
following word is
geminated: jätesäkki 'trash bag' [jætesːækːi],
tervetuloa 'welcome' [terʋetːuloa]. In
certain cases, a v
after a u is
geminated by most people:...
-
semivowels and
fricatives into stops; in particular,
geminated ɣ
becomes qq,
geminated y
becomes gg, and
geminated w
becomes bb.
Kabyle is
mostly composed of fricatives...
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consonant clusters. /j/, /w/, and /z/ are the only
consonants that
cannot be
geminated. /t, d/ are
laminal denti-alveolar [t̪, d̪],
commonly called "dental"...
- 'to
stand up'
These geminates are
derived by
deleting the
initial morpheme of a
reduplicated word and
replacing it with a
geminated form of the remaining...
- Instead, it
represents a
voiceless /p/ that
contrasts with
either a
geminated /pː/ (in Estonian) or an
aspirated /ph/ (in Danish, Faroese, Icelandic...
-
consonants can be
geminated, even at the
start of a word:
bbiri /bːíri/ 'two',
kitto /cítːo/ 'cold'. The
approximants /w/ and /j/ are
geminated as /ɡːw/ and...
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Nasal m n nʲ
Plosive short p t tʲ k
geminated pː tː tʲː kː
Fricative voiced v
voiceless short f s sʲ ʃ h
geminated fː sː sʲː ʃː hː
Approximant l lʲ j Trill...
- levels, "single" and "
geminate".
Estonian and some Sami
languages have
three phonemic lengths: short,
geminate, and long
geminate,
although the distinction...
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effects of the
shift were the
following below.
Voiceless stops became long (
geminated)
voiceless fricatives following a vowel;
Voiceless stops became affricates...
- the n-stems and ōn-verbs, it gave rise to an
alternation of
geminated and non-
geminated consonants in the same paradigms.
These were
largely regularized...
