Re: THEORY: Sandhi

 --- Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...> wrote:
> >Eh? Ease-of-learning appeared how? FWIW, I suppose
> liason, celtic-style
> >mutations, elesions etc. could be considered forms
> of sandhi- it's just
> >that sandhi seems to be confined to used in
> Sanskrit AFAIK. Apart form the
> >one mentioned, are there any other languages which
> explicitly use the term
> >"sandhi" to describe phonetic changes?
>
> Some books use the word "sandhi" for this type of
> changes in all languages.
>
>
> Andreas
answer: I think Weiben Wang answer the question better
than I. The current mardarin is a much easier language
simplified from old tone language, it's got no rule.
and it could be most other tone languages have rules
called sandhi. Not only this, the mardarin assign
every character only one oral action while other
language like Cantonese some times use two actions for
one characters such as 'yik' for mandarin 'yi'. Any
way the Chinese languages although use 'tone' still
have plenty of problems.
Su Cheng Zhong

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