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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

belongs to one of certain morphological classes. Gemination or a tendency of a morpheme to cause gemination is sometimes indicated with an apostrophe or a...

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

Geminated /ʎ/ may also occur. Some analyze intervocalic [r] as the result of gemination of a single rhotic phoneme. This is similar to the common analysis of...

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...

alphabet Dagesh ḥazak, a functionally similar diacritic used to indicate gemination in Biblical Hebrew Versteegh, 1997. The Arabic language. p 56. v t e...

Vowel Shift, which began during the later Middle English period. Loss of gemination (double consonants came to be pronounced as single ones) Loss of weak...