11. The long consonants only appear intervocalically. 12. Unlike in modern Swedish, a short vowel in Old Swedish did not entail a long consonant . 13. The reverse of gemination is the process in which a long consonant is reduced to a short one. 14. When you interrupt that cadence either with a long silence or with a long consonant , you snap people to attention. 15. The assimilated remains unreleased and thus the geminates are phonetically long consonants . does not occur before vowels or nasal consonants. 16. In 2010, the Congreso Nacional Kuna decided a spelling reform by which long consonants should be written with double letters. 17. Between a long consonant and a pause, an epenthetic occurs, but this is only common across regions in West Asia. 18. Spanish has been experiencing a centuries-long consonant shift in which the fricative ( see " ye�smo " ). 19. Kraehenmann says : " Then, Proto-Germanic already had long consonants & but they contrasted with short ones only word-medially. 20. Some dialects of the Aegean and Cypriot have retained long consonants and pronounce and; also, has come to be pronounced in Cypriot.
