Mark J. Reed wrote:
>Could someone please enlighten me as to the sounds represented by
>these funky diacritic-adorned letters in Indic transliteration?
>I'm looking at the terminology of the Hindu calendar, and the
>source language isn't given, but I assume Sanskrit. In any case,
>the original language is written with Devanagari, since the original
>written form is given beside some of the transliterations.
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>The specific symbols I'm most curious about are as follows. If someone
>could translate them into IPA or CXS, I'd be most obliged.
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> ā (LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH MACRON)
> How is this different from the unmacronned <a>?
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Macronned a = [a:], unmacronned a=[@]
> ī (LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH MACRON)
> Ditto.
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Just a length thing here - unmacronned= [i], macronned =[i:]
> ś (LATIN SMALL LETTER S WITH ACUTE)
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s-acute = [C]
> ṛ (LATIN SMALL LETTER R WITH DOT BELOW)
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[r=]
> ṁ (LATIN SMALL LETTER M WITH DOT ABOVE)
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That marks nasalisation.
> ṅ (LATIN SMALL LETTER N WITH DOT ABOVE)
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That's [N] - remember, not [n`](which is n-underdot)
>Thanks!
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>-Mark
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