Re: consonant length

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


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