Re: Introducing myself to the list
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, June 22, 2000, 16:58 |
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At 23:07 21.6.2000 -0500, Danny Wier wrote:
>Oh yeah, Indo-Aryan. I forget that 'h' (not _visarga_) is voiced, and 'hn'
>and similar pairs are common in Sanskrit. I consider them two phonemes,
>since they're written by two letters.
But in Prakrit they become _nh_ (e.g. _Bamhana_ < _Brahma.na_), and are
treated the same as sibilant+nasal clusters (e.g. _k,r.s.na_ >
_kanha_). They are certainly monomorphemic in Prakrit, which generally
shuns clusters (but not geminates). For such heavily Sanskritized NIA
languages as Hindi it may be an open question.
/BP
B.Philip Jonsson mailto:melroch@mail.com
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