Talk:Play language

see history of this page for culture info, but note that the culture it refers to is mostly now figured as non-Play-speaking since Play only diverged ~1958 AD.

From Wikipedia's article on Modern Hebrew:

Long vowels occur where two identical vowels were historically separated by a pharyngeal or glottal consonant, and the first was stressed. (Where the second was stressed, the result is a sequence of two short vowels.)

This is the exact pattern that I used in Play, without knowing it had occurred in the real world.