Re: Bengali vowels

On Aug 25, 1:03 am, arya.raychaudh...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
On Aug 24, 7:34 am, analys...@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

We know that Sanskrit does not have vowels corresponding to English
"pet", "pat" and "pot".

Isn't it true that Bengali has these vowels and does anybody know how
they got introduced into Bengali?

Thanks.


Thanks a lot. Some more questions, if I may.

Bengali has 12 vowels, Sanskrit had more
(http://www.omniglot.com/writing/sanskrit.htm)
Bengali is a much evolved form of Sanskrit, for example,
some of the vowel sounds of Sanskrit are absorbed in the set of
consonants in Bengali.

The sound of "e" as in "pet" is reproduced in Bengali using the
vowel "eh" which is the ninth vowel in the list quoted above (link).
The sound of "o" as in "pot" is configured with the vowel "awh" in
Bengali, that is inherited from the first vowel in the list of
Sanskrit

OK. so sanskrit "Animesh" should be rendered "Onimesh" in Bengali?

In fact does Bengali have the short "a" sound as in "but" at all ?

Even Hindi has the "e" sound in say, Mehendi (henna). Do you think
Northern Indian languages borrowed this sound after the Mughal/Muslim
invasions?


vowels (above link). This sound of "o" is different from that of "o"
as in "pole" which is made by the vowel "oh" in Bengali, that is
derived from the 11th Sanskrit vowel. There is no direct vowel for
the sound of "a" as in "pat", in Bengali. It is synthesized indirectly
with the consonant "ya" wihich is kind of half vowel.

So "Tyagi" (martyr) would be pronounced with the "cat" vowel?


Arjoe

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