Re: Uusisuom's influences

> > While short/long vowels are not that rare amongst real langs,
>
> And what's even worse about Finnish: the short/long distinction goes
> for both vowels and consonants, and it's *phonemic*! Aaarghs! :)
That's not been a problem for me ;)

>
> > the only European langs I can think of which do have geminated
> > consonants are Italian (only Central-Southern varieties; my dialect
> > completely lacks them), Finnish (Estonian? Saami?) and some German
> > dialects.
>
> And Swedish of course (though not really phonemic). :)
geminated phonemic consonants?

Hungarian, Estonian, Sami, Votian, Ingrian, Izhorian, Karelian, Turkish,
and some other ones too...

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