Return-Path: Received: from SEGATE.SUNET.SE by xiron.pc.helsinki.fi with smtp (Linux Smail3.1.28.1 #1) id m0tHYIm-0000ZUC; Mon, 20 Nov 95 17:38 EET Message-Id: Received: from listmail.sunet.se by SEGATE.SUNET.SE (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.0a) with SMTP id 1901A2C5 ; Mon, 20 Nov 1995 16:38:34 +0100 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 X-To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu To: Veijo Vilva In-Reply-To: <199511162006.PAA10528@cs.columbia.edu> (message from ucleaar on Thu, 16 Nov 1995 19:56:42 +0000) Content-Length: 1003 Lines: 20 >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