In unified international braille, the braille pattern dots-12345 is used to represent double consonants, such as / kw / or / k? / or otherwise as needed.
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This follows the general rule in German that a long vowel is followed by a single consonant, while a short vowel is followed by a double consonant.
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The doubled consonants then came to be used as an indicator for vowel length ( and later, quality ), a feature seen in most Germanic languages today.
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Moreover, Psycharis also advocated spelling reform, which would have meant abolishing the six different ways to write the vowel / i / and all instances of double consonants.
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A word with double consonants ( / bb / ) has a distinct pause between the two consonants ( for example, / bebbeb / " AWOL " ).
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Its most obvious further attributes are the heavy use of double consonants where traditional orthography uses single ones, and the gratuitous substitution of German vocabulary for established Yiddish words.
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Inflected forms are generally strong except when the stem ending contains a double consonant and there is only a single vowel separating this from the last stem KPT consonant.
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Orm's chief innovation was to employ doubled consonants to show that the preceding vowel is short and single consonants when the Matthew and Harrison 2004, pp . 936 37 ).
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In the North and South Baffin dialects, as well as the dialects to the south and east of Baffin Island, double consonants starting with a labial consonant are also geminated.
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In some cases assimilation is progressive ( from the first consonant to the second ), in others regressive, and in still others double consonants are neutralised into a single form.
