31. In gemination , an initial consonant was geminated by a preceding word originally ending in, or after a vowel. 32. Nasser categorizes variant readings into various subtypes, including internal vowels, long vowels, gemination ( shaddah ), alternation. 33. When morphological processes require this, the gemination is dropped and the syllable is inserted, which can then be prenasalised. 34. Occasionally, gemination may also result from a loss of a vowel after u0 ( " fu " ). 35. In particular, the gemination of consonants other than the liquids and nasals is " generally considered affected or pedantic ". 36. Gemination was lost in Standard Modern Greek, so that all consonants that used to be geminated are pronounced as singletons.37. "Syntactic " means that gemination spans word boundaries, as opposed to the ordinary geminated consonants : " grappa ". 38. Sometimes gemination ( i . e . the doubling of consonants or vowels ) is considered to be a form of reduplication. 39. Nouns are marked as definite with the prefix / ha-/ followed by gemination of the initial consonant of the noun. 40. The phoneme h and the gemination of m do not exist in Greek so it has disappeared from John's uses.
