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Gemination

In phonetics and phonology, gemination (/ˌdʒɛmɪˈneɪʃən/ ⓘ; from Latin geminatio 'doubling', itself from gemini 'twins'), or consonant lengthening, is an articulation of a consonant for a longer period of time than that of a singleton consonant. It is distinct from stress. Gemination is represented in many writing systems by a doubled letter and is often…

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Entity .mw-parser-output .nobold{font-weight:normal}(decimal)
ː
IPA number
503
Unicode (hex)
U+02D0

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Gemination

Nodes172
Edges171
Triples53
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.011628
Components1

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Gemination

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related to Writing · 21
Gemination → Also, Arabic, Catalan, Classical Hebrew, Estonian, For, Ganda, Halt, Hence, Hungarian, In, In Italian, In Japanese, In Swedish, Japanese, Llull, Norwegian, Standard Catalan, The, Thus
related to Phonology · 7
Gemination → Faroese, Icelandic, In, In Classical Arabic, Italian, Luganda, Swedish
related to Japanese · 6
Gemination → Distinction, For, In, In Japanese, Modern Japanese, With
related to Luganda · 5
Gemination → Bantu, For, Luganda, There, Whenever
see also · 2
Gemination → Vowel, West Germanic
Entity .mw-parser-output .nobold{font-weight:normal}(decimal) · 1
Gemination → ː
IPA number · 1
Gemination → 503
Unicode (hex) · 1
Gemination → U+02D0

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consonant consonants length long geminated languages vowel also words word vs italian example finnish pronounced short arabic doubled two geminates

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
GeminationEntity .mw-parser-output .nobold{font-weight:normal}(decimal)ː1.00infobox
GeminationIPA number5031.00infobox
GeminationUnicode (hex)U+02D01.00infobox
Sicilianinstance ofa few Romance languages0.80text
Neapolitaninstance ofa few Romance languages0.80text
as well as many High Alemannic German dialectsinstance ofa few Romance languages0.80text
such as that of Thurgoviainstance ofa few Romance languages0.80text
Kelantan-Pattani Malayinstance ofparticularly those found on the east coast of the Malay Peninsula0.80text
Terengganu Malayinstance ofparticularly those found on the east coast of the Malay Peninsula0.80text
elle a ditinstance ofStatements0.80text
キットinstance ofDistinction between voiceless gemination and voiced gemination is visible in pairs of words0.80text
in a word like /ʔítt/ 'sleep' is not pronounced like a geminated stop with a long closure durationinstance ofa sequence of two /t/ sounds0.80text

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