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Re: Devanagari LTR, Question etc. (was: Scripts)

From:Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...>
Date:Sunday, July 7, 2002, 23:55
On Sun, 7 Jul 2002 19:36:32 -0400 Elliott Lash <AL260@...> writes:
> draqonfayir@JUNO.COM writes: > > Ah. That makes sense. Those letters that look like triangles > especially > > mess me up :-P . > > By the way, talking about linguistic features of India, does > anyone > > happen to know how to say "father!" (vocative case, if such > > exists) in Sanskrit?
> Of course it exists, it's actually different from the nominative > singular in almost every nominal class. Father is declined thus in > Sanskrit: > Singular:
> voctive: pitar
> Elliott Lash
- Thanks! But what's the accentuation rule for Sanskrit? is it /'pitar/ or /pi'tar/? -Stephen (Steg) "i am the terror that flaps in the night." ~ darkwing duck