| 21. | Before a geminate, all vowels are short.
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| 22. | A consonant cannot be both geminated and prenasalised.
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| 23. | A geminate or prenasalised consonant has one mora.
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| 24. | Geminate consonants are generally represented with two characters.
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| 25. | Nearly all Votic consonants may occur as geminates.
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| 26. | Some speakers distinguish between single and geminate consonants.
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| 27. | Geminate consonants are phonemically contrastive in Biblical Hebrew.
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| 28. | Most native consonants may occur geminate ( doubled in length; exceptions are ).
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| 29. | :The technical linguistic term is " geminate " or " geminated " consonant.
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| 30. | :The technical linguistic term is " geminate " or " geminated " consonant.
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