Harry ~ I love reading all these responses. When explaining sandhi to my undergrads in my intro to Hinduism course, I tell them that Sanskrit privileges the spoken over the written. When they ask me what that means, I say to them, "I'm gonna tell ya," and then I write "I'm gonna tell ya" on the board.
All best, Mark On Fri, Aug 5, 2022 at 1:59 AM Lucy May Constantini via INDOLOGY < [email protected]> wrote: > Welsh definitely has sandhi, and it reflects in the spelling. My Welsh is > rudimentary, but an example would be "Cymru am byth" (the Welsh motto > "Wales forever") and "Croeso i Gymru" (on the road signs as one leaves > England and enters Wales, meaning "Welcome to Wales"). The spelling > Cymru/Gymru (Wales) is dependent on the sandhi. > > All best wishes, > > Lucy May Constantini > PhD Candidate in Religious Studies > School of Social Sciences and Global Studies > Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences > The Open University > > AHRC Open-Oxford-Cambridge DTP Funded > > OU People: Lucy May Constantini <https://www.open.ac.uk/people/lmc662> > > > On Fri, 5 Aug 2022 at 01:54, Elliot Stern via INDOLOGY < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> 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 >> > > _______________________________________________ > INDOLOGY mailing list > [email protected] > https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology > -- Mark McLaughlin, PhD *Senior Lecturer of South Asian Religions* *Department of Religious StudiesWilliam & MaryWilliamsburg, VA*
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