Language desk
< November 26	<< Oct \| November \| Dec >>	Current desk >

Welcome to the Wikipedia Language Reference Desk Archives
The page you are currently viewing is a transcluded archive page. While you can leave answers for any questions shown below, please ask new questions on one of the current reference desk pages.

November 27[edit]

Ohlone language[edit]

There was a village named "Ssatumnumo" in the Ohlone language where Princeton-by-the-Sea is located today. Is this spelling correct? And how is the ss pronounced? Why not use one s instead of two? Viriditas (talk) 09:16, 27 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Browsing the articles on Ohlone languages, I found that "Vowels and consonants are doubled to indicate longer pronunciation" (mentioned in Mutsun language). PiusImpavidus (talk) 11:36, 27 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Would that be an initial geminated consonant? 惑乱 Wakuran (talk) 11:52, 27 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Apparently. The article Gemination mentions several languages that have lexical word-initial gemination (various Malay dialects, Tuvaluan, Luganda and Wagiman). --Lambiam 10:06, 28 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

So does Polish (e.g., wwóz /vːus/ 'importation'). — Kpalion^(talk) 15:29, 29 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]