[YG Conlang Archives] > [westasianconlangs group] > messages [Date Index] [Thread Index] >
On Monday, January 12, 2004, at 10:00 PM, Isaac Penzev wrote:
Does anybody know how gemination is marked in Ethiopic?
If i remember correctly, i think my Comparative Semitic Languages professor said that Ethiopic (or at least Ge`ez) lost gemination at some point in history, so the script has no way to represent it. If you wanted to, you could just double the relevant syllable character - that would add a nice bit of ambiguity to the system!
-Stephen (Steg)
"there were hyraxes everywhere!"
~ s