Pronunciation of word final "a" in sanskrit

[Periannan Chandrasekaran]

Maybe Madhuresan should have taken care to specify that these mappings
apply
for naming conventions before "modernization" due to influence from
Hindi or the northern culture.
Wouldn't the Kannada names have been narAyaNa, ranganAthA etc., until
a few generations ago?
I have also been curious about the "age" of names such as anil, sunil
among kannadigas. Were these popular say till the end of the last
century?
For example, even in tamil nadu quite a few people are named
"Chandrasekar"
without the -an suffix and even when not so  named, they are adressed
without
the "-an" suffix.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chandan R. Narayan [mailto:cnarayan at SOCRATES.BERKELEY.EDU]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 1999 12:03 PM
> To: INDOLOGY at LISTSERV.LIV.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: Pronunciation of word final "a" in sanskrit
>
>
> Its somewhat difficult to make sweeping statements like the
> one below...
> my parents are from Karnataka, my name is "chandan", my father's name
> "nArAyaN", my uncle's name "ranganAth", etc. We are very much
> "from the
> South".
>...........>
>
>
> On Wed, 26 May 1999, Swaminathan Madhuresan wrote:
>
> >  The south had a full word-final "a", it seems.
> >  Probably why modern personal names differ a little
> >  between north and south.
> >
> >           --------------------------------------------
> >            north             |     south
> >           ---------------------------------------------
> >            shiv                     shivan
> >            narayan                  narayanan
> >            ganesh                   ganeshan
..............
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