Re: Quenya and other Tolkien's languages' <ss>

Quoting Petr Mejzlík <imploder@...>:

> Does <ss> in Quenya represent geminate /s/ or is it just another
> orthographic quirk to adjust the appearance to English spelling (like the
> diaeresis on e)? Or is it just that /s/ is often long in these languages
> since <ss> is very common? Being it just a way to write single /s/
> somewhere would be pretty confusing since these languages have consonant
> gemination (<nn> = /n:/, <mm> = /m:/ etc.).
Appendix E to the rescue:

"Note that consonants written twice, as tt, ll, ss, nn, represent long, 'double'
consonants."


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Andreas Johansson