Re: "~NH" in Sinhalese Pali Orthography

Eisel,

It might help if you could give an example of "~nh" being replaced by
".nh". In Pali, I'm only aware of the use of "~nh" in cases like
"ta~nhi" or "eva~nhi" and both involve the niggahita. It would be a
spelling mistake to change ~n to .n. I would be interested in seeing
examples, if there are any, of "~nh" within a word like the ".nh" in
"ta.nhaa". If the Sinhalese typesetter lacked ~nh fonts, he could
print it as "ta.m hi" or "eva.m hi" instead.

Jim

> No, no, Jim!  You've got it the wrong way around!
>
> The question is whether "~nh" is WRITTEN AS ".nh".  In modern
> Sinhalese, "~nh" simply isn't written --probably because they
> pronounce this combination as ".nh".  So, to reiterate: the question
> is, "do Sinhalese Pali texts similarly substitute retroflex .n for
~n
> --or is this limited to the modern language only (without being
> super-imposed on Pali).



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