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Re: consonant length

From:Danny Wier <dawier@...>
Date:Friday, May 14, 1999, 0:59
Quoth Patrick W. Dunn:

>Is there any natlanguage that differentiates between consonants of >different length, for instance, s and ss or m and mm? I've been thinking >of tackling an isolating language again (those are harder than you think!) >and thought that'd be a nice way to increase my phonemic inventory.
These are the ones I know for sure (or at least think I know): Latin, Italian, Sanskrit, Hindi-Urdu, a little in Cl. Greek Finnish, Estonian, Hungarian Mongolian (?) Arabic, Hebrew, Aramaic, Ge'ez and daughter languages Tamil and other Dravidian languages Chechen (?) Inuktitut (?) That's all I can think of right now... Danny _______________________________________________________________ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com