In phonetics and phonology, gemination (/ˌdʒɛmɪˈneɪʃən/; from Latin geminatio 'doubling', itself from gemini 'twins'), or consonant lengthening, is an...

lengthening (gemination) of the initial consonant in certain contexts. It may also be called word-initial gemination or phonosyntactic consonantal gemination. In...

West Germanic gemination was a sound change that took place in all West Germanic languages around the 3rd or 4th century AD. It affected consonants directly...

Tooth gemination is a dental phenomenon that appears to be two teeth developed from one. There is one main crown with a cleft in it that, within the incisal...

brackets. Gemination, the doubling of a consonantal sound, is meaningful in Tigrinya, i.e. it affects the meaning of words. While gemination plays an important...

from the central vowels /ə, ɪ, ʊ/. This gemination is less prominent than the literarily regular gemination represented by the diacritics mentioned above...

the sound shift that merged Sanskrit [ʂ] and /kʰ/ to Punjabi /kʰ/); a gemination diacritic, a unique feature among native subcontinental scripts, which...

RTGS: bai-set. Gemination occurs for various purposes and in various forms in Kelatan-Pattani Malay. At the phonemic level, these geminations are transcribed...

major operating systems. As in most other Ethiopian Semitic languages, gemination is contrastive in Amharic. That is, consonant length can distinguish words...

but rather different contextual variants of some of the Arabic letters. Gemination is the doubling of a consonant. Instead of writing the letter twice, Arabic...