[INDOLOGY] Anusvara plus nasal

[Nagaraj Paturi]

http://books.google.co.in/books/about/Early_Telugu_Inscriptions_Upto_sic_1100.html?id=H38LAAAAMAAJ

Covers this among other things.

Regards,

Nagaraj


On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 11:32 PM, Nagaraj Paturi <nagarajpaturi at gmail.com>
wrote:

> These points have been discussed in the books on the History of Telugu
> language. I shall check if any book/article written in English on the
> subject covered these details and get back to you.
>
> Regards,
>
> Nagaraj
>
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 9:07 AM, Dipak Bhattacharya <dipak.d2004 at gmail.com
> > wrote:
>
>> This is interesting. But, is the related history documented? Dani's
>> account of the evolution of the southern scripts does not go into so much
>> detail. I shall be glad to have a published account of the evolution.
>> Best
>> DB
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 12:08 AM, Nagaraj Paturi <nagarajpaturi at gmail.com
>> > wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> 1. In Telugu (probably in all Dravidian) inscriptions, anusvāra , a full
>>> circle,  was a later borrowing from Northern Brahmi orthography.
>>>
>>> 2. There is ardha (half) anusvāra, a verticle half of a circle also in
>>> classical Telugu orthography.  There is evidence to believe that this
>>> script symbol was used to indicate nasalization of the preceding vowel.
>>>
>>> There is evidence also to believe that the script symbol survived even
>>> after the nasalization was lost in pronunciation by the preceding vowel.
>>>
>>> 3. The ardha (half) anusvara, the verticle half of a circle is a later
>>> invention in the Telugu orthography. During early Telugu inscriptions, when
>>> the ardha (half) anusvara, the verticle half of a circle was not invented
>>> yet, full anusvāra, full circle itself was used in the place of ardha
>>> anusvāra also. A full circle not followed by a glyph for a nasal indicated
>>> the ardha (half) anusvara (nasalization of the preceding vowel) whereas a
>>> full circle followed by a nasal indicated full anusvāra (nasal first part
>>> of a cluster).
>>>
>>> This is just to see if this provides any clue here.
>>>
>>> Nagaraj
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>
>
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> Prof.Nagaraj Paturi
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>



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