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Re: [QUESTION] Initial Geminants

From:And Rosta <a-rosta@...>
Date:Wednesday, June 5, 2002, 17:02
Yitzik Penzev:
> 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?
Calabrese. I don't know of any online description, but the main offline description is by Gerhard Rohlfs. --And.