SV: about the "n
From: Ole Holten Pind
Message: 1339
Date: 2005-10-05
The guttural nasal only occurs before gutturals viz. k, kh, g, or gh. You
may find the term n.a-kaara in grammatical literature to denote the guttural
nasal, in which case you find it before a; but a is only to facilitate
articulating n.
Otherwise n. does not occur as the first phoneme of a word neither in Pali
nor in Sanskrit. There is one exception though, the verbal root n.u which
according to the Sanskrit grammarians means "to sound."
Ole Pind
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af Phra Noah Yuttadhammo
Sendt: 5. oktober 2005 05:51
Til: palistudy@yahoogroups.com
Emne: [palistudy] about the "n
Dear Friends,
Sorry for the simple question, but is it true that the "n character (the
gutteral nasal) in the pali language only occurs before a k, kh, g, or gh?
Or can it exist elsewhere on its own?
Thanks for the help,
Yuttadhammo
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