SV: Niggahiita in IPA?
From: Ole Holten Pind
Message: 1832
Date: 2006-05-17
<Her interpretation of the pronunciation of niggahiita (rule 28, page 63) is
very similiar to mine; one difference being that she interprets it and the
preceding vowel as coalescing into a short nasalized vowel rather than a
long half-nasalized vowel as I do.>
I agree with your interpretation in that there are examples of long vowels
nasalized as short vowel + niggahiita. They occur to the best of my
knowledge exclusively in Pali verses that are subject to metrical
constraints, short vowel + niggahiita being metrically equivalent to any
given long vowel.
Ole Pind