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

Quoting Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...>:

> 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.
Modern High German.

                                                   Andreas