Dear Harry, Welsh and other Celtic languages may have sandhi or similar phenomena. Howard’s example suggest you may want to consider Latin.
I can also think of certain English colloquialisms like Whazzup for What’s up. Elliot Sent from my iPhone > On Aug 4, 2022, at 4:02 PM, Howard Resnick <[email protected]> wrote: > > English sandhi, n -> m before a labial consonant: > > Examples: in-justice but im-possible; in-scrutable, but im-mature. > > etc. > > Good luck, > Howard > >> On Aug 4, 2022, at 12:51 PM, Harry Spier via INDOLOGY >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Dear list members, >> I need to give a brief introductory talk to english speakers, not linguistic >> or sanskrit students, but english speakers who chant sanskrit mantras and >> shlokas. >> I thought I'd briefly talk about and give examples of: >> 1) How sanskrit is very independent of word order. >> 2) How sanskrit uses case endings >> 3) How sandhi is widespread in sanskrit andi is also part of the spelling in >> sanskrit . >> >> I'd like to give examples of sandhi in english to to make the concept of >> sandhi more clear. The examples I know of are: >> 1) final "s" >> "books" pronounced as "books" but "bags" pronounced as "bagz". >> 2) final "d" >> "glazed" pronounced as "glaizd" but "placed" pronounced as "plaist" >> >> It would be helpful if someone could give me other examples of sandhi in >> english. Not final "s" or final "d" >> >> Also is it true that most (all?) languages have sandhi ? >> >> Is sandhi expressed in the spelling (and not just the pronounciation) of any >> non-Indian languages? >> >> Thanks, >> Harry Spier >> >> Thanks, >> Harry Spier >> >> _______________________________________________ >> INDOLOGY mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology > > > _______________________________________________ > INDOLOGY mailing list > [email protected] > https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology _______________________________________________ INDOLOGY mailing list [email protected] https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology
