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  2. Gemination - Wikipedia

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    Double consonants are common on morpheme borders where the initial or final sound of the suffix is the same as the final or initial sound of the stem (depending on the position of the suffix), after devoicing. Examples: przedtem /ˈpʂɛtːɛm/ – 'before, previously'; from przed (suffix 'before') + tem (archaic 'that')

  3. Silent e - Wikipedia

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    This can be seen in the vowels in word-pairs such as rid / r ɪ d / and ride / r aɪ d /, in which the presence of the final, unpronounced e appears to alter the sound of the preceding i . An example with consonants is the word-pair loath (loʊθ) and loathe (loʊð), where the e can be understood as a marker of a voiced th .

  4. Double consonant - Wikipedia

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    Double consonant ("doubled consonant", "consonant doubling", etc.) may refer to: Gemination, the doubling or lengthening of the pronunciation of a consonant sound; A digraph consisting of a repeated consonant American and British spelling differences involving double consonants

  5. Old English phonology - Wikipedia

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    There was a contrast between short consonant sounds, such as the /n/ in banan 'slayers', and long consonant sounds, such as the /nn/ in bannan 'summon': long consonants were represented in writing with double consonant letters. [3] Long consonants are also called geminate consonants (or just "geminates") from the Latin word geminus 'twin ...

  6. Latin phonology and orthography - Wikipedia

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    In Old Latin, final /s/ after a short vowel was often lost, probably after first debuccalizing to [h], as in the inscriptional form Cornelio for Cornelios (Classical Cornelius). Often in the poetry of Plautus, Ennius, and Lucretius, final /s/ did not count as a consonant when followed by a word beginning with a consonant. By the Classical ...

  7. IPA consonant chart with audio - Wikipedia

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    The following tables present pulmonic and non-pulmonic consonants. In the IPA, a pulmonic consonant is a consonant made by obstructing the glottis (the space between the vocal cords) or oral cavity (the mouth) and either simultaneously or subsequently letting out air from the lungs. Pulmonic consonants make up the majority of consonants in the ...

  8. Urdu alphabet - Wikipedia

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    As an abjad, the Urdu script only shows consonants and long vowels; short vowels can only be inferred by the consonants' relation to each other. While this type of script is convenient in Semitic languages like Arabic and Hebrew , whose consonant roots are the key of the sentence, Urdu is an Indo-European language , which requires more ...

  9. Digraph (orthography) - Wikipedia

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    In Welsh, the digraph ll fused for a time into a ligature.. A digraph (from Ancient Greek δίς (dís) 'double' and γράφω (gráphō) 'to write') or digram is a pair of characters used in the orthography of a language to write either a single phoneme (distinct sound), or a sequence of phonemes that does not correspond to the normal values of the two characters combined.