Re: Japanese Pali Orthography / Phonetics]

From: nyanatusita
Message: 1371
Date: 2005-10-11



navako wrote:

>I have often wondered what standard the Japanese use for Pali (presumably
>they have a set of standard Indic phonetics used also for Sanskrit --perhaps
>also for modern Indian languages?) --but I have been unable to find anything
>about this subject.

>
The Japanese monk staying here told me that the Japanese put a dash
after the vowel character to denote long vowels, he did not know how
cerebrals, etc, are transcribed and whether they are transcribed.

How are the Sanskrit s accent,  r macron, r dot below & macron
transcribed according to the Velthuis scheme?  ''s, ''r, ''.r?

Bh. Nyanatusita




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