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Attention Roger! Sanskrit loans in Javanese etc.

From:Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...>
Date:Monday, November 24, 2008, 15:38
I guess this is one for Roger primarily.

I need info on how Sanskrit/Prakrit loans are
treated in Javanese and other Indonesian lgs.
What little info I have is suggestive of a
NE IndoAryan substrate (/@/ > /Q/).
What happens to the different sibilants
and the aspirates?  I guess the name
_Bahasa Indonesia_ gives part of the answers! :-)


/BP 8^)>
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Benct Philip Jonsson -- melroch atte melroch dotte se
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ROGER MILLS <rfmilly@...>