Re: long consonants
| From: | bob thornton <arcanesock@...> |
|---|
| Date: | Tuesday, March 8, 2005, 22:46 |
|---|
--- # 1 <salut_vous_autre@...> wrote:
> I'd want to ask if much languages distinguish long
> and short consonants
>
> like if /na/ and /n:a/ would have different meanings
> as it would be of /na/
> and /na:/
>
>
> that's because I begun a language that I wanted to
> have only a few
> consonants and vowels and to extend the
> possibilities the vowels and some of
> the consonants have long and short phonemic
> realisations
>
>
> For the vowels I know it is normal and found in a
> lot of languages but
> what's about the consonants?
>
Consonant lengthening, called 'gemination' is found in
Finnish, and I think a few Semetic languages. It's
uncommon, but not that much so.
>
> -Max
>
-The Sock
"My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:
Look upon my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
__________________________________
Celebrate Yahoo!'s 10th Birthday!
Yahoo! Netrospective: 100 Moments of the Web
http://birthday.yahoo.com/netrospective/
Replies