From LOJBAN%CUVMB.BITNET@UBVM.CC.BUFFALO.EDU Mon Nov 20 10:46:55 1995 Received: from VMS.DC.LSOFT.COM (vms.dc.lsoft.com [205.186.43.2]) by locke.ccil.org (8.6.9/8.6.10) with ESMTP id KAA23294 for ; Mon, 20 Nov 1995 10:46:53 -0500 Message-Id: <199511201546.KAA23294@locke.ccil.org> Received: from PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM (205.186.43.4) by VMS.DC.LSOFT.COM (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.0a) with SMTP id 2FC50EE9 ; Mon, 20 Nov 1995 11:38:34 -0400 Date: Mon, 20 Nov 1995 10:27:10 -0500 Reply-To: "Mark E. Shoulson" Sender: Lojban list From: "Mark E. Shoulson" Subject: Re: Goran on phonology To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu In-Reply-To: <199511162006.PAA10528@cs.columbia.edu> (message from ucleaar on Thu, 16 Nov 1995 19:56:42 +0000) Status: OR >Date: Thu, 16 Nov 1995 19:56:42 +0000 >From: ucleaar >> I didn't believe my professor when he told me that Rg Veda is recited >> rather than sung. I said, "But I heard melody!". He said, that's just >> accents. Sama Veda is Rg Veda in song."). AFAIK. >I don't believe it either. A Tamil once sang me some, and I still remember >the tune of the start - I can't write out the notes because I'd need >access to a musical instrument to work it out on, but it sort of reminds >me of Pink Floyd's _The Wall_. Oh yes, and it was different when recited, >e.g. AgnimIlepUrohItam when sung but AgnimIlepUritAm when recited. FWIW, I have it right here in Devanagari, from the Sanskrit Reader by Charles Lanman, and it reads "agnimi=.le purohita.m" (i= is long i, .l is cerebral l [a letter which did not survive into Classical Sanskrit], and .m is anusvara, a nasalization of the preceding vowel). I won't hazard to speak authoritatively as to accent. ~mark