Examples of spelling change from Italian: una ombra → un’ombra; quella opera → quell’opera. Furthermore, the vowel [i] can be added at the beginning of a word, as in per ischerzo (from per scherzo), or in ispalla (from in spalla).

(from: https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/sandhi_%28Enciclopedia-dell%27Italiano%29/)

Cristina Pecchia

Von: INDOLOGY <indology-bounces@list.indology.info> Im Auftrag von Harry Spier via INDOLOGY
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 4. August 2022 22:54
An: Howard Resnick <hr@ivs.edu>
Cc: Indology List <indology@list.indology.info>
Betreff: Re: [INDOLOGY] Sandhi examples in the english language

Thank you all for these great replies. Howard Resnick gives an example of a spelling change for internal sandhi.  Can someone give me an example of a spelling change for word junction (external) sandhi in a non-Indian language (if such a thing exists?).

Harry Spier

On Thu, Aug 4, 2022 at 4:01 PM Howard Resnick <hr@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@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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