The Last Lingua Franca: English Until the Return of Babel by Ostler Nicholas

Author:Ostler, Nicholas [Ostler, Nicholas]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Walker Books
Published: 2010-11-30T16:00:00+00:00

attho akkharasa

to

akkhar

p

dayo ekacatt

l

sam

tatthodant

sar

a

ha

would be written in Sri Lanka as:

in Cambodia as :

and in Myanmar as:

These all represent the same language, up to a point. But in fact, when read out by natives of the different countries, they would sound totally distinct: the pronunciation of the Pali words diff ers markedly in the traditional accent associated with each ambient language. Sinhala, Khmer, Burmese, Lao, and Thai have very different sound systems, not all of them tolerant of the consonant and vowel distinctions made in Pali. So the simple evocation buddhamsaranam ga

èham

“I turn for refuge to the Buddha” comes out fairly straight in Sri Lanka, but as more like budhã tayanã gissami in Myanmar, as puntam taranamg

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