Thank you to everyone who sent me these great examples. Harry Spier On Fri, Aug 5, 2022 at 4:13 PM Mark McLaughlin via INDOLOGY < [email protected]> wrote:
> 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* > > _______________________________________________ > INDOLOGY mailing list > [email protected] > https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology >
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