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Re: Quantity shift (was: Re: Native grammatical terms)

From:Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...>
Date:Friday, November 21, 2003, 3:05
Paul Bennett wrote:
> PIE had e, e:, o, o: and no obviously geminate consonants, unless you > subscribe to some variants of the Glottalic Theory.
Any examples from non-reconstructed languages? The only examples I can think of of languages with long vowels also have geminate consonants. -- "There's no such thing as 'cool'. Everyone's just a big dork or nerd, you just have to find people who are dorky the same way you are." - overheard ICQ: 18656696 AIM Screen-Name: NikTaylor42

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