Harry ~ I love reading all these responses. When explaining sandhi to my undergrads in my intro to Hinduism course, I tell them that Sanskrit privileges the spoken over the written. When they ask me what that means, I say to them, "I'm gonna tell ya," and then I write "I'm gonna tell ya" on the board. 

All best,

Mark

On Fri, Aug 5, 2022 at 1:59 AM Lucy May Constantini via INDOLOGY <indology@list.indology.info> wrote:

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.

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On Fri, 5 Aug 2022 at 01:54, Elliot Stern via INDOLOGY <indology@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

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> On Aug 4, 2022, at 4:02 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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