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 ==Footnotes==
 ) A major criticism directed towards Schumann, notably by Dr. Tashunka, is that although Schumann is "competent" in the ''Širkattarnaft'', he lacks a full understanding of its development and evolution, and how it was historically used by other non-Minhast minority speakers, namely the Peshpeg and Ín Duári, to transcribe their respective languages.<br/>
-) Schumann argues that gemination does not occur in Vadi, as the authors' ''Širkattarnaft'' does not show any gemination.  This argument, as Tashunka notes, is problematic in that most Minhast writings, both past and present, rarely indicate gemination.  There is no reason to think the Vadi litigants would not follow the same practice.
+) Schumann argues that gemination does not occur in Vadi, as the authors' ''Širkattarnaft'' does not show any gemination.  This argument, as Tashunka notes, is problematic in that most Minhast writings, both past and present, rarely use the gemination diacritic.  Evidence of gemination in Vadi surfaces in the orthography between morpheme boundaries where the vowel of the syllable preceding the geminate consonant is lengthened, and the following syllable or a "dummy syllable" starts with a voiced consonant to indicate fortition.
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