Re: OT: Help reading Indic transliteration?
| From: | Joe <joe@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, January 14, 2004, 20:37 |
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Mark J. Reed wrote:
>On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 08:06:56PM +0000, Joe wrote:
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>>Macronned a = [a:], unmacronned a=[@]
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>Ah, Latinesque. Cool. :)
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>>> ṛ (LATIN SMALL LETTER R WITH DOT BELOW)
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>>[r=]
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>Ok. Is that really [r=], in other words, a lengthened trill, and not
>the syllabic [r\] that shows up in e.g. English <butter>?
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I think it's the latter, actually, but I'm not quite sure. And, of
course, for me, English has no [r\] in |butter|, but it's best not to
bring that up.
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>>> ṁ (LATIN SMALL LETTER M WITH DOT ABOVE)
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>>That marks nasalisation.
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>Only? No actual [m] sound, so that, e.g., <Siṁha> is /si~h@/?
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Indeed.
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