Re: [QUESTION] Initial Geminants
| From: | John Cowan <jcowan@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, June 5, 2002, 16:46 |
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Y.Penzev scripsit:
> In all my rich collection of data about different
> natlangs I can not find a natlang that permits initial geminants. Have any
> of you ever heard about any natlang that has such feature?
Southern Italian dialects geminate almost every initial consonant,
except (I think) l m n r.
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