Re: consonant length
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, May 14, 1999, 0:05 |
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dunn patrick w wrote:
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> Is there any natlanguage that differentiates between consonants of
> different length, for instance, s and ss or m and mm?
Certainly, a lot of them. Italian, for instance, IIRC, _nono_ = ninth,
_nonno_ = grandfather. I did that in my conlang, as well. For
instance, _sutaki'_ = person, _suttaki'_ = persons
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