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H.M. Hubey wrote:<br>
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I clipped the following from this website. I want to make some off-the-cuff
comments (later).<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://members.tripod.com/%7Ehettiarachchi/sinhala.html">http://members.tripod.com/~hettiarachchi/sinhala.html</a><br>
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For example, in Sanskrit, the sound r takes more prominence, appearing in
many words. This is not so in Prakrit (Pali) which has a tendency to eliminate
this sound. In turn Pali words possessed a high proportion of double consonants,
a feature that was eliminated in Sinhala. This had taken place by the 3rd
century B.C. as borne out by the earliest cave inscriptions.</font>
<p><font face="Courier New,Courier"><font size="+1"> Sanskrit
Pali Sinhala<br>
karman kamma kam (work)<br>
marga magga maga (path )</font></font></p>
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The mar- root has to be related to Hittite pai, Turkic bar, Latin ped, and
Persian pai (foot). I can't believe that d>y or y>d.<br>
The sound must have been *dh, as seen in Turkic (attested). Any comments.
Furthermore, like the PIE p > Germanic f<br>
which was caused by nonIE speakers causing the change (Comrie), I believe
dh>d was caused by nonIE learners.<br>
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Comments appreciated.<br>
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