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A Phonological Sketch of Apabhrama
before stop
lanpada 'addicted' vidanbia
'cheated' danti pura 'a city' manda
"little sancallia
‘moved' sancha'aa 'shaded' sanjama
'restraint sanjha
'evening' santhia
'established' parichandia an abandoned woman' sankia
'suspected' sankheva 'brevity' phulinga 'spark'
sangha-u 'collected' before /v/ and /s/, sanvara
‘restraint dansana
sight' before /h
tumha risa like you genha
'take
lion' word-final position;
bauN tuhun
'you'
SINha
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Observations
Before a non-labial stop, the bomorganic nasal is always written as N, while before a labial stop the hoinorganic nasal is written varyiug with N. Consider the following instance : thambha
'pillar' khaNbha 'pillar' This writing thus indicates that there was no phonemic con trast between the pasals before a homorganic stop, and hence N was used as a cover symbol to represent the homorganic
