These entities specified by abjads can be lengthened in a process called gemination.
These entities specified by abjads can be lengthened in a process called gemination. Implosive, egressive, and click types refer to their non-pulmonic manners of articulation, while the pulmonic manners include plosive and fricative. They are syllabized if they are the most sonorant phoneme in a syllable, and although they typically cannot be the nucleus of a syllable, the onset and coda of a syllable are often these sounds. For 10 points, name these sounds created by a partial or full closure of the breath, which contrast with vowels.
These entities specified by abjads can be lengthened in a process called gemination.
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