Re: [tied] Centum in Vedic?

On Fri, 1 Mar 2002 20:10:39 -0000, "P&G" <petegray@...>
wrote:

>> In "A Sanskrit Grammar" ..Manfred Mayrhofer ..writes
>>"h is a voiced aspirate, -h (visarga) a voiceless aspirate.
>
>This has always puzzled me! What, precisely, is a "voiced aspirate"? That
>seems to me a contradiction in terms. Is some kind of voiced pharyngeal or
>laryngeal meant?

A voiced laryngeal, like Czech <h>.

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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