Luca wrote:
> word initial stress will someday cause a terrible syncope phenomenon,
> IMO, which will mix up almost everything, in a language which allows
> 25syllabic words.
I'm surprised it hasn't happened earlier, considering their close
contact to all the Germanic languages.
> 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! :)
> 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). :)
||| daniel
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