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The table in the subsection "Pronunciation" has some issues that need to be fixed.
the tip of the tongue should be curled back further to the roof of the mouth; Cardona:
located at the area immediately behind the alveolar ridge (mūrdhanya [usually translated 'retroflex'])). Cardona explicitly uses the term retroflex in the further description, not only for the rhotic and the sibilant, but also for stops and nasals.
the Taittirīyaprātiśākhya notes that according to some the segment a in ai and au is a closer vowel than the usual a. Closer than a [ɐ] would be [ə]; Cardona does not say that it is not central like the usual a. So we should change [ɐi ~ ɛi] / [ɐu ~ ɔu] to [ɐi ~ əi] / [ɐu ~ əu], but note that this actually is an OR interpretation of the source. To be on the safe side, I suggest to only use [ɐi]/[ɐu] and a note in prose about the reported variation.
Also, I am not very happy about the use of ⟨ɑ⟩ in /ɑː/, /ɑj/, /ɑw/ for ā, ai, and au. None of the cited sources uses ⟨ɑ⟩. Only Goldman & Goldman's description for the layperson (pronounced like the o in "mom"
) might suggest [ɑː] for ā, but all sources that are more explicit about the exact phonetic nature of vowels describe it as central (and FWIW, Robert Goldman uses central or front [aː] when reading Sanskrit texts aloud). And /ɑj/, /ɑw/ are entirely unsupported by the sources. It's not just the ⟨ɑ⟩ that is wrong, but also the transcription of the second segment as glide; Cardona mentions that according to some traditions, the second segment was pronounced with an even longer duration than the a. Let's replace /ɑː/, /ɑj/, /ɑw/ with /aː/, /ai/, /au/.
Thoughts? If no one objects, I will change the tables in the next few days. –Austronesier (talk) 11:23, 21 October 2023 (UTC)
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Will an entry on that writing system for Sanskrit have to be made?
If so, how could it be titled? -- Apisite (talk) 22:34, 12 April 2024 (UTC)
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I want to add to the main table, where it speaks about the regions where Sanskrit is used, to write just Indian Subcontinent (which is geographically a synonym to South Asia, but more related to the concept of the Indosphere), Indianised Southeast Asia (to specify that it was parts of Southeast Asia under Indian influence), and also Tibet and Mongolia, the Indo-Tibetan cultural sphere, which in the mediaeval and early modern period received large influences from India (Mongolia through Tibet). 31.221.136.153 (talk) 08:11, 23 May 2024 (UTC)
Not done for now: please establish a consensus for this alteration before using the ((Edit semi-protected))
template. This is a large change, and should be discussed here before being proposed using the Edit Request template. PianoDan (talk) 20:09, 23 May 2024 (UTC)
I don't know if this is covered elsewhere but I was wondering why this article relies almost exclusively on Western experts to the exclusion (with very few exceptions) of native Indian sources? There are so many Sanskrit scholars in India, it is taught in High School, there are Sanskrit newspapers, it is one of teh recognised official languages of India etc. But it seems that only Western sources are relied upon to give us any information on the language. Why is that? It would be like a page on English that relied only on Chinese and Japanese scholars, or scholars of any country other than those who are native English speakers. And, yes in India there are still native speakers of Sanskrit. So it seems to me that this article is a very Euro-Centric presentation that leaves out the views of those who actually use the language. I would like to see this remedied with a more balanced approach and more emphasis and input from Indian sources and much less from Western sources. 67.204.247.30 (talk) 17:26, 24 May 2024 (UTC)
Sanskrit ( Sanskrit : संस्राम, Sanskrit pronunciation: [ˈsɐ̃skr̩tɐm] ) is a language of the Indian subcontinent . Sanskrit is an Indo-Aryan language which is a branch of the Indo-European language family. [5] Modern Indian languages such as Hindi , Bengali , Marathi , Sindhi , Punjabi , Nepali , etc. have originated from it. All these languages also include the Romani language of European gypsies. Almost all the religious texts related to Vedic religion have been written in Sanskrit. Many important texts of Buddhism (especially Mahayana) and Jainism have also been written in Sanskrit. Even today, most of the yajnas and pujas of Hinduism are done in Sanskrit only. Sanskrit means "reformed" or "changed". Sanskrit language is written in Devanagari script. Dhamma script kept improving (changing) a little with time. For example, a little difference can be seen in the words in the inscriptions and records of Maurya and Gupta period. This continued for many centuries and many scripts emerged from Pali Prakrit language (in Dhamma script) like Tamil, Telugu in the south and Bengali, Nagari Sharada in the north. The use of Devanagari script started in the 9th century and by the 11th century, Devanagari script was fully developed. If we talk about Sanskrit language, since the script of Sanskrit is Devanagari, it also came in the middle of the 9th century. Before this, no archaeological evidence of Sanskrit language was found nor is it mentioned anywhere. Hence, it proves that the oldest language of India (whose ancient name is Jambudweep ) is Prakrit Pali and the oldest script is Dhamma script (now Brahmi script). If we look at it, the oldest language and script is the language of Indus Valley Civilization which has not been read till date. Mohit atulkar (talk) 00:45, 25 May 2024 (UTC)