Re: [QUESTION] Initial Geminants
| From: | Tristan McLeay <kesuari@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, June 10, 2002, 4:40 |
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On Wed, 2002-06-05 at 10:13, John Cowan wrote:
> Y.Penzev scripsit:
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> > 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.
I think there's a word 'mmerde'. I realise it's not the sort of word you
mention in good company, but it's proof I know that the rule isn't
entirely correct. And I learnt it from _The Leopard_ which I read
earlier this year, you may remember a post asking what it meant.
Tristan.