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H.M. Hubey wrote:<br>
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<p><font face="Courier New,Courier"><font size="+1"></font></font> </p>
<p><font size="+1">There also exist a number of other sound changes that
characterize Sinhala and distinguish it from its North Indian sister languages.
The change of Sanskrit s to h and the latterÕs eventual disappearance is
unique to Sinhala amongst Aryan languages, although such changes</font></p>
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I guess by now it should be clear :-)<br>
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I do not believe this happened either. I have been asking for an attestation
of k>s for a long time.<br>
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IT seems to me what happened is <br>
1) th > t >s or t > s<br>
2) t > k > h<br>
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Any comments?<br>
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<p><font size="+1"> have occured in other Indo-European languages such
as Greek and Armenian. We know from ancient Sinhalese inscriptions that the
Sanskrit surya (sun) had become hir by the 9th century and hira by the end
of the 12th century. </font></p>
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THis can't be right. There is some kind of an error in transmission. It cannot
lose the -ya and then gain it back as -a. It sounds too unbelievable.<br>
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Something else happened. Maybe different dialects got into writing at different
times by taking over, or else some other shift occurred.<br>
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There should be some general principles of linguistics that inhibits this
kind of stuff from being passed off as "fact" when so many other<br>
possibilities exist.<br>
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Comments?<br>
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<p><font size="+1">This in turn became the present day ira by the 15th
century. </font></p>
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This makes sense. It is easy enough to believe h>0 but if it comes back
again, whoaaa.<br>
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