Re: Japanese Long Consonants

On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 01:23:15 -0400, Sai Emrys <conlangs@...> wrote:
> >Re long voiced C:
> >> Japanese *does* allow them, e.g. beddo -- a Western style bed (IIRC),
> >>even if they don't occur in native words.
>
> They do. E.g. "shikko", knee-walking.
That's not voiced! "They" was referring to long voiced stops.

> S too - "sesseto", assidiously.
That looks onomatopoetic to me; "massao" (deep blue) or "kissaten"
(café) may be better examples. Or something like "sessen" (tangent /
snow line).

Cheers,
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Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>
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