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

En réponse à Dan Sulani :

> >
> >     (I'm assuming that you mean "geminate consonants".
> > If not, please correct me.)
>
>     At the time, for some reason, I expected the word geminate
>to actually _be_ geminate with a double "m". When I checked
>my dictionary, I was very disappointed to find only one "m" in the word!
Hehe, maybe we should add "gemminate" with the other self-describing 
linguistic words like "haplogy" and "redureduplication" :) . Isn't there a 
list of those somewhere?

>    This got me to wondering, do any of your conlangs
>have geminate sounds for the words "two", "double", "couple"
>or similar words?
Maggel: two: snah, a hsnao (snao alone means "twice")
         two by two: bdrujmeo
         duo, couple: muhdh

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] :) ).

>     Do any of your conlangs have only one sound for the word
>"one" (or one syllable, where multisyllablism is the rule)?
Maggel has |gho| [ho:] for "one". I thought it fitted well :) (it is |a 
ghho| [@'Co:] when used with nouns :) ). But "one by one" is |libaejmeo| 
[lpe'Ne:] and "solo" is |gbahi| ['b2:CI] :) .

>    Perhaps, in all seriousness, I need a special vocabulary
>to cover this: "a single where two is normal" and
>"two where two is normal". Maybe also a unitary term
>for "one where single is the norm".
Nice ideas. I may steal them ;) .

Christophe Grandsire.

http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr

You need a straight mind to invent a twisted conlang. 

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