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Aert · Joined: 03 Jul 2008 Posts: 354

Inspired by a thread on a languages/linguistics forum, do any of your conlangs have multiple of the same letters in a row?

Mine can include double letters for indications of stress, but using an 'h' is more common for that.

However, in compound words/conjugations etc, these things will happen:

Vé'ssśen = I looked
Vé-s-sśen [I-(past indicator)-look]

which can be made even worse in:

Oś'ssśen = They (people) looked
(pronounced like /ɑʃssʃIn/

(The past indicator could be -se- but that would ruin the flow here Wink

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dusepo · Joined: 12 Feb 2008 Posts: 129

Retafon never has double letters, it's one of the linguistical 'rules' of the language.
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kyonides · Joined: 28 Aug 2008 Posts: 301

Mmm, Kexyana has some double letters, not many, like "nn", "ss", "aa", "ee", "ii", "oo" (there's no "uu") and only a single word has "rr" (but I may change this if deemed necessary). Triple ones? Never. Even so I considered that a new conlang could include such feature but it would force the speaker to pronounce one o two of those consonants in a different way...
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mrtoast2 · Joined: 19 Feb 2008 Posts: 123 Location: Goromonzi

No, not anymore.
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Tolkien_Freak · Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2009 12:42 am Post subject:

In Kilhiryui and Emitary, doubled consonants indicate gemination. However, <tt> represent the affricates /tT dD kx/.

Hemicomputer · Joined: 04 Feb 2008 Posts: 610 Location: Calgary, Alberta

Doubled consonants can occur in Holxws due to certain affixes. For example:
Nwxxálț "by means of (a) mother"
Rațettwr "attack (noun)"

Double consonants cannot occur in Hosi nv Cohi, as it has CV syllable structure. Drumu uses different forms of its many affixes in order to prevent too many consonants or vowels in a row. Сун might have them, but I haven't come across any yet. Schwa insertion is used in Kai to avoid doubled consonants.

eldin raigmore · Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2009 7:15 pm Post subject:

Adpihi and Reptigan not only avoid geminated consonants (or, for that matter, geminated vowels); they even avoid having two sounds that are too similar in the same morpheme.
They don't allow two copies of the same consonant to be consecutive consonants even if vowels occur in between. They don't like two copies in the same morpheme, even if other consonants occur in between; they don't like two consonants at the same point-of-articulation to be consecutive consonants, even if vowels occur in between.
And so on.
Two consonants at the same PoA with the same voicing can't occur without another consonant in between;
two consonants with the same MoA (manner of articulation) and the same voicing can't occur without (an)other consonant(s) in between;
two consonants with the same PoA and same MoA can't occur without another consonant in between;
in general, two consonants with the same PoA, or the same MoA, occurring with no other consonant between them, is dis-preferred even if there are vowels between them.

This actually leads to different paradigms (conjugations or declensions) based on the first or last consonant of a root; these languages don't "like" having the last consonant of a prefix be "too similar" to the first consonant of a root, or the last consonant of a root be "too similar" to the first consonant of a suffix.
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Tolkien_Freak · Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2009 3:13 am Post subject:

You know, I really like that idea, Eldin. Maybe I can pirate it for my next lang ^_^.

eldin raigmore · Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2009 9:56 pm Post subject:

imdamoos · Joined: 06 Jul 2008 Posts: 64 Location: New York

Caelaurian has several double letters: aa, dd, gg, ii, rr, tt, xx

As a rule, if you're writing a word, and it has a double letter, you have to spell it using other double letters that won't change the pronunciation. Because of this, a lot of words that have of pair of double letters usually have a chain of double letters. But if you have to use a single letter and the chain of double letters is broken, you continue using whatever letters you need. Basically, put as many double letters after each other as possible.

If you have two of the same vowel next to each other, you change pitch so that each one is part of a different syllable. This makes the language sound very sing-song.

Aert · Joined: 03 Jul 2008 Posts: 354

Hey,

What about strings of double/multiple letters, like English 'bookkeeping' (or even with letters inbetween)? What is the reason behind yours?

In Aert, the word for 'misinformed' has 3 sets of double letters: 'źëeraadaas' /ʒjiəɹadas/ (palatal j - supposed to be superscript). Here, the 'ëe' is the /jiə/, and 'aa' represents /a/.

(I know that Ualaxx has tons of this Wink

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achemel · Joined: 29 Mar 2009 Posts: 556 Location: up for debate

Ohhh, yes. Indeed it does. Wink

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