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Steg Belsky wrote: > 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. I'm not sure it's true at the moment. From what I heard, both Ge`ez and Amaregna has gemination, but it is not represented in script. When I come home, I'll give a look into my Linguistic Dictionary for more accuracy. > If > you wanted to, you could just double the relevant syllable character - > that would add a nice bit of ambiguity to the system! Ambiguity is good. Still I have another idea. I think I'll write it like _Ce+CV_. Unfortunately, I can't give any examples right now, because I haven't yet decided, whether short PS /a/ and /i/ will > Nw. /e/ everywhere, or only in open syllables. So it may be either ጠልሎ _tha.le.lo_ /t_>ello/ or ጣልሎ _thaa.le.lo_ /t_>allo/ 'dew'. I also want to use digraphs like Ca+we for representing /o:/ contrasted to /o/ _Co_, as in የውሞ _ya.we.mo_ /jo:mo/ 'day'. Or shall I use just Ca+ወ (wa) - it's shorter? -- Yitzik