Re: Old Languages
| From: | Boudewijn Rempt <boud@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, October 10, 2001, 5:19 |
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On Tue, 9 Oct 2001, Amber Adams wrote:
> In modern Hindi, I think that's pronounced /S/. I'm not sure how the
> Sanskritists do it, though.
>
We were taught to make a difference between palatal, dental and
retroflex sounds. The only problem was, I was studying Chinese
at the same time, and my Sanskrit teacher and my Modern Chinese
teacher had quite different ideas about those sounds. When I
started with articulatory phonetics the year after, it turned out
both were quite wrong.
Boudewijn Rempt | http://www.valdyas.org