Reference Books on Sanskrit Linguistics and/or phonology

Dominik Wujastyk ucgadkw at ucl.ac.uk
Thu Apr 25 12:17:02 UTC 1996


TMCQ at vax1.miu.edu said:
> 
> I am currently involved in a research project investigating the mouth and
> tongue positions while pronouncing correctly the different vowels and
> consonants, in particular for each varga i.e. kantya, talavya, murdhanya, etc.
> and aspirated, unaspirated, and nasals.  Does anyone know of books on
> Linguistics or Phonology (or any related subject) which provide studies and
> digrams.  Thanks in advance for your help. 

W. Sidney Allen, _Phonetics in Ancient India_ (London: OUP, 1953,
reprinted 1963) is a classic study.  His _Vox Latina_ and _Vox Graecae_
provide similar materials for those languages, but of course because of
the rich indigenous tradition of phonetics in India, the PIAI book is
special.

Dominik







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