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

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:
nominative: pita: (with long a)
accusative: pitaram
instrumental: pitra:
dative: pitre
ablative/genitive: pituh. (with visarga)
locative: pitari
voctive: pitar

Dual:
nom./voc./accusative: pitarau
inst./dat./ablative: pitrbhya:m
gen./locative: pitroh.

Plural:
nom./vocative: pitarah.
accusative: pitr:n (with long syllabic r)
instrumental: pitrbhih.
dat./ablative: pitrbhyah.
genitive: pitr:n.a:m (with cerebral n)
locative: pitrs.u (with cerebral s)

Elliott Lash