"~NH" in Sinhalese Pali Orthography
From: Eisel Mazard
Message: 1493
Date: 2005-11-18
I note that modern Sinhalese uniformly supplants the combination "~nh"
with ".nh" --I am not sure if this rule is phonetic or orthographic,
but the retroflex .n replaces the ~n whenever the latter is ligatured
to h. Possibly this is not the only instance.
My question is how this impacts Pali orthography.
Do Sinhalese Pali MS *or* printed editions substitute a retroflex ".n"
into the combination "~nh" ... or not?
I would appreciate any opinions on this matter; it is difficult for me
to judge, as I have never consciously "searched" for a context in
which ~n/.n could be clearly seen as an error (super-imposed by modern
Sinhalese typesetting).
E.M.