Re: Japanese Long Consonants
| From: | Chris Bates <chris.maths_student@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, November 6, 2004, 17:12 |
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> That, of course provides a nice method for introducing realistic-seeming
> apparently-historical irregularities into your language. Or, you could
> have a 3-way system (to what use, I don't know):
> * long vowel
> * short vowel
> * short vowel + glottal stop
This was the system I was proposing... a 3-way distinction like that. :)
But I have now incorporated long vowel + glottal stop (marked by a
circumflex) also... although I have to concentrate when I speak to not
cut the long vowel short. *hums* Anyway... all the glottal stops vanish
in both the daughter languages, giving rise to long consonants in one,
and various other phonological changes in the other.
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