Re: [QUESTION] Initial Geminants

From: "Y.Penzev" <isaac@...>
> Shalom y'all!
>
> I had an idea last night to include in one of my conlang projects geminants
> (doubled consonants) like /pp/, /ss/ as separate fonemes, and to have them
> both in intervocal position (like /tassa/:: /tasa/) and in initial position
> (/paka/::/ppaka/). 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?
Heard about, I have, on this list in fact, someone mentioned:
http://listserv.brown.edu/archives/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0201D&L=conlang&P=R23348


My lang Ibran has initial geminates phonemically, but by default they're not
allowed to appear except after a vowel.

        scuil        /k:O:l/      [kO:]
        un scuil     /In k:O:l/   [E~k:O:]

    *Muke!
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