Re: long consonants

--- Henrik Theiling <theiling@...> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> bob thornton <arcanesock@...> writes:
> > --- # 1 <salut_vous_autre@...> wrote:
> > > I'd want to ask if much languages distinguish
> long
> > > and short consonants
> >...
> > Consonant lengthening, called 'gemination' is
> found in
> > Finnish, and I think a few Semetic languages. It's
> > uncommon, but not that much so.
>
> Uncommon?  That's not what I would say.  To travel
> around the world,
> naming a few not-so-unknown langs: it exists in
> Finnish, Estonian,
> Japanese, Arabic, Greenlandic, Inuktitut, Swiss
> German, and many
> others.  (And I'm sure I forgot a few other famous
> ones.)
>
> I'd say it's quite common.
>
I stand corrected, and bow to your superior linguistic knowledge.

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