Re: long consonants
| From: | Henrik Theiling <theiling@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, March 9, 2005, 0:20 |
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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.
**Henrik
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