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-Most of the consonants present may appear in a long and short form: po''m''íba 'my apple [acc.]' vs. po''mm''idön 'to eat an apple'. The ratio of length between a short and a long consonant is 1:2. Lenghened plosives are lengthened by holding the air for a longer period of time before release. The consonants which appear only as weak grades of lenited consonants [''β'', ''ð'', ''ɣ'', ''ʋ''] do not have a lengthened counterpart since they do not appear in basic stems, prefixes or suffixes.
+Most of the consonants present may appear in a long and short form: po''m''íba 'my apple [acc.]' vs. po''mm''idön 'to eat an apple'. The ratio of length between a short and a long consonant is 1:2. Lenghened plosives are lengthened by holding the air for a longer period of time before release. The consonants which appear only as weak grades of lenited consonants [''β'', ''ð'', ''ɣ'', ''ʋ''] do not have a lengthened counterpart since they do not appear in basic stems, prefixes or suffixes. When written as a lengthened consonant, the single grapheme is usually doubled:
+{| class=wikitables
+! single consonant
+!! phoneme
+!! geminated consonant
+!! phoneme
+|-
+| p
+|| [p]
+|| pp
+|| [p:]
+|-
+|| b
+|| [b]
+|| bb
+|| [b:]
+|-
+|| t
+|| [t]
+|| tt
+|| [t:]
+|-
+|| d
+|| [d]
+|| dd
+|| [d:]
+|-
+|| k
+|| [k]
+|| kk
+|| [k:]
+|-
+|| g
+|| [g]
+|| gg
+|| [g:]
+|-
+|| m
+|| [m]
+|| mm
+|| [m:]
+|-
+|| n
+|| [n]
+|| nn
+|| [n:]
+|-
+|}
 ===Lenition===