Re: [QUESTION] Initial Geminants
| From: | Roger Mills <romilly@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, June 4, 2002, 20:55 |
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Muke Tever wrote:
>
>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:]
That suggests to me that (in at least this case) the geminate probably
derives from earlier pre-aspiration-- *sk... > **hk... > k:... Certainly
possible. Perhaps Future Spanish will have this. escuela > [(e)k:wela]; or
[xa'mon] 'ham, sg.', [x:a'mone:] (via [lox:a'moneh]) plural. Hey,
mutations!!!
Some of the (word-internal) geminates of Buginese derive from C1C2 > ?C
which in pronunciation is often equivalent to C:
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