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Re: Conlang Geminates (was Re: the status of the glottal stop in Hebrew)

From:Peter Bleackley <peter.bleackley@...>
Date:Friday, July 9, 2004, 8:37
Staving Christophe Grandsire:

>Nope, no luck :) . But "three" is ihdeeir (but in the Maggel script, the >double ee appears as a single ligature) and "three by three" is thgegeo, >which is written with ge as a ligature, so you get a geminated ligature in >that word :) . But those geminates are purely orthographical. |thgegeo|, >for instance, is pronounced [TM\@'ge:] (and the 'h' goes with the >following 'g', not with the 't' which *alone* stands for [T] :) ).
Maggel writing is essentially logographic. The logograms just happen to look like they're composed of strings of Latin letters. Pete

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