A word ending in A *or* AA preceding a word beginning in A *or* AA will
all coalesce to a single AA in Sanskrit. That's four possibilities, and
that doesn't count a word ending in a consonant preceding a word
beginning in AA, which would be written the same. My memory is rusty,
so I should actually be looking things up, but I think these are valid
constructions:
न + अगच्छत् → नागच्छत्
न + आगच्छत् → नागच्छत्
(and indeed, आगच्छत् is the upasarga आ plus अगच्छत्, so there too the A
+ AA coalesced.) I should probably find you examples for all the other
possibilities. Sanskrit external vowel sandhi is comparatively
straightforward (compared to consonant sandhi), and it frequently loses
information. A *or* AA plus I is E; A *or* AA plus U is O (you need A +
O to get AU).
~mark
On 03/13/2017 06:26 PM, Manish Goregaokar wrote:
Do you have examples of AA being split that way (and further reading)?
I think I'm aware of what you're talking about, but would love to read
more about it.
-Manish
On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 2:47 PM, Richard Wordingham
<richard.wording...@ntlworld.com> wrote:
On Mon, 13 Mar 2017 23:10:11 +0200
Khaled Hosny <khaledho...@eglug.org> wrote:
But there are many text operations that require access to Unicode code
points. Take for example text layout, as mapping characters to glyphs
and back has to operate on code points. The idea that you never need
to work with code points is too simplistic.
There are advantages to interpreting and operating on text as though it
were in form NFD. However, there are still cases where one needs
fractions of a character, such as word boundaries in Sanskrit, though I
think the locations are liable to be specified in a language-specific
form. U+093E DEVANAGARI VOWEL SIGN AA can have a word boundary in it
in at least 4 ways.
Richard.
