In phonetics and phonology, gemination (/ˌdʒɛmɪˈneɪʃən/; from Latin geminatio 'doubling', itself from gemini 'twins'), or consonant lengthening, is an...

lengthening (gemination) of the initial consonant in certain contexts. It may also be called word-initial gemination or phonosyntactic consonantal gemination. In...

Tooth gemination is a dental phenomenon that appears to be two teeth developed from one. There is one main crown with a cleft in it that, within the incisal...

West Germanic gemination was a sound change that took place in all West Germanic languages around the 3rd or 4th century AD. It affected consonants directly...

brackets. Gemination, the doubling of a consonantal sound, is meaningful in Tigrinya, i.e. it affects the meaning of words. While gemination plays an important...

from the central vowels /ə, ɪ, ʊ/. This gemination is less prominent than the literarily regular gemination represented by the diacritics mentioned above...

major operating systems. As in most other Ethiopian Semitic languages, gemination is contrastive in Amharic. That is, consonant length can distinguish words...

RTGS: bai-set. Gemination occurs for various purposes and in various forms in Kelatan-Pattani Malay. At the phonemic level, these geminations are transcribed...

the sound shift that merged Sanskrit [ʂ] and /kʰ/ to Punjabi /kʰ/); a gemination diacritic, a unique feature among native subcontinental scripts, which...

but rather different contextual variants of some of the Arabic letters. Gemination is the doubling of a consonant. Instead of writing the letter twice, Arabic...

words: Gemination of h: When an h is made geminate, it becomes Qp [pp]—for example, oQ- (intensifier) + hesowa "to push" → oQpesowa "to push." Gemination of...

in the same prosodic unit. There are two types of triggers of initial gemination: some unstressed particles, prepositions, and other monosyllabic words...

capital F was used in the Icelandic First Grammatical Treatise to mark gemination ꟳ : Modifier letter capital F – Used to mark tone for the Chatino orthography...

reduplication and gemination (which often overlap in meaning) to derive nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs throughout the AA language family. Gemination in particular...

sometimes with following consonants, to show which sound is intended. Gemination: Within words, double consonants are generally not pronounced as geminates...

same prosodic unit. Sometimes, the phenomenon can create some syntactic-gemination-minimal-pairs: In the example, the graphical accent on dà is just a diacritical...

ࡁࡉ࡚‎ /be/ A dot under a consonant (U+085B ◌࡛ MANDAIC GEMINATION MARK) can be used to note gemination, indicating what native writers call a "hard" pronunciation...

Lao is a Tai language spoken by 7 million people in Laos and 23 million people in northeast Thailand. After the conclusion of the Franco-Siamese conflict...

nasal, e.g. [mm], [nn] = /Nm/, /Nn/. In the case of non-nasal consonants, gemination is mostly restricted by Japanese phonotactics to the voiceless obstruents...

markers, although there are also negative and imperative derivatives. Vowel gemination can also sometimes illustrate semantic change. Reduplication is one of...

mid-high sounds). Italian has contrast between short and long consonants and gemination (doubling) of consonants. During the Middle Ages, the established written...

capital S was used in the Icelandic First Grammatical Treatise to mark gemination. Ʂ ʂ : S with hook, used for writing Mandarin Chinese using the early...

West Germanic gemination of consonants, except r, before /j/. This only occurred in short-stemmed words due to Sievers' law. Gemination of /p/, /t/, /k/...

change must have occurred after the loss of word-final /z/. West Germanic gemination: lengthening of all consonants except /r/ before /j/.; this change must...

are some phonetic modifications to larger numbers involving voicing or gemination of certain consonants, as typically occurs in Japanese (i.e. rendaku):...

This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For...

Most Israelis today also merge /ʕ ħ/ with /ʔ χ/, do not have contrastive gemination, and pronounce /r/ as a uvular fricative [ʁ] or a voiced velar fricative...

consonants were indicated by diacritics on vowels (in the case of consonant gemination, the diacritics were placed on the vowel preceding the affected consonant)...

the Georgian Chronicles; the long length of the initial vowel or the gemination of the consonant s in some forms (NPers. Ās, Āṣ; Lat. Aas, Assi); and...

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