Re: Indian Linguistics

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Francesco Brighenti" <frabrig@...>
wrote:

> See the updates contained in Richard Salomon, _Indian Epigraphy: A
> Guide to the Study of Inscriptions in Sanskrit, Prakrit, and the
> Other Indo-Aryan Languages_, New York, Oxford University Press, 1998
> (Salomon is a world-class specialist in Sanskrit and Prakrit
> language and literature, epigraphy, ancient Indian history, and
> Gandharan studies):
>
> http://tinyurl.com/5erkhj

It's a shame that Richard Salomon promotes the disbelief in Indic CVC
orthographic syllables (Section 2.1.3), even though they're fairy rare
in India proper - the Limbu script is the nearest I'm aware of in
India. They crop up as regular features in the Lanna/Tham and
Javanese scripts, and cases can be made for them in Kharoshthi, Khmer
and, albeit weakly, in Thai.

Richard.