[INDOLOGY] Sandhi examples in the english language

[Lucy May Constantini]

Welsh definitely has sandhi, and it reflects in the spelling. My Welsh is
rudimentary, but an example would be "Cymru am byth" (the Welsh motto
"Wales forever") and "Croeso i Gymru" (on the road signs as one leaves
England and enters Wales, meaning "Welcome to Wales"). The spelling
Cymru/Gymru (Wales) is dependent on the sandhi.

All best wishes,

Lucy May Constantini
PhD Candidate in Religious Studies
School of Social Sciences and Global Studies
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
The Open University

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On Fri, 5 Aug 2022 at 01:54, Elliot Stern via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info> wrote:

> Dear Harry,
>
> Welsh and other Celtic languages may have sandhi or similar phenomena.
> Howard’s example suggest you may want to consider Latin.
>
> I can also think of certain English colloquialisms like Whazzup for What’s
> up.
>
> Elliot
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On Aug 4, 2022, at 4:02 PM, Howard Resnick <hr at ivs.edu> wrote:
> >
> > English sandhi, n -> m before a labial consonant:
> >
> > Examples: in-justice but im-possible; in-scrutable, but im-mature.
> >
> > etc.
> >
> > Good luck,
> > Howard
> >
> >> On Aug 4, 2022, at 12:51 PM, Harry Spier via INDOLOGY <
> indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
> >>
> >> Dear list members,
> >> I need to give a brief introductory talk to english speakers, not
> linguistic or sanskrit students, but english speakers who chant sanskrit
> mantras and shlokas.
> >> I thought I'd briefly talk about and give examples of:
> >> 1) How sanskrit is very independent of word order.
> >> 2) How sanskrit uses case endings
> >> 3) How sandhi is widespread in sanskrit andi is also part of the
> spelling in sanskrit .
> >>
> >> I'd like to give examples of sandhi in english to to make the concept
> of sandhi more clear.  The examples I know of are:
> >> 1) final "s"
> >> "books" pronounced as "books" but "bags" pronounced as "bagz".
> >> 2) final "d"
> >> "glazed" pronounced as "glaizd" but "placed" pronounced as "plaist"
> >>
> >> It would be helpful if someone could give me other examples of sandhi
> in english. Not final "s" or final "d"
> >>
> >> Also is it true that most (all?) languages have sandhi ?
> >>
> >> Is sandhi expressed in the spelling (and not just the pronounciation)
> of any non-Indian languages?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Harry Spier
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Harry Spier
> >>
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