Re: [tied] Sanskrit /r/

From: petegray
Message: 7717
Date: 2001-06-22

> My Classical Snaskrit textbook states /r/ is a retroflex ("cerebral")
> sound in Sanskrit. It's rather unclear from the passage, whether it's
> a reconstructed value or the value preserved by Indian tradition.

In Sanskrit /r/ makes a following n or /S/ retroflex. This is a fairly big
clue.

Peter