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of the Tigrinya verb, it is normally accompanied by other marks. But there is a small number of pairs of words which are only differentiable from each other by gemination, e.g. , ; , . All consonants, with the exception of the pharyngeal and glottal ones, can be geminated.

Allophones

The velar consonants and are pronounced differently when they appear immediately after a vowel and are not geminated.

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