Re: [Freebangfont-devel] Exam Time

[Deepayan Sarkar]

On Wednesday 20 November 2002 06:58 pm, Andy White wrote:
> Question 1
>
> Should the sequence: Consonant1 + hasanta + Consonat2 + rashaw_i look
> like any of the following?
> 1. ikar C1 hasanta C2
> 2. C1 hasanta ikar C2
> 3. ikar halfC1 C2
> 4. ikar C1C2.(conjunt)
> 5. khandata ikar C2
>
> It should be obvious that 3, 4 & 5. are correct, But which to use out of
> 1 & 2?
>
> Well surprisingly there is a rule.
> Use 1. when either:
>       a) C2 is a semi-vowel and the hasanta is not representing a
> glottal stop.
> or    b) C1 hasanta C2 needs to represent a missing conjunct
> consonant. (e.g. emulating the case of a typesetter running out of
> ta-y-tas)
> else

This part is not clear to me. Could you give an example for case (a) ? If, for 
instance, we consider da + hasanta + ba + ikaar, you are saying that 

ikaar da hasanta ba

is preferred over

da hasanta ikaar ba 

? [And how exactly are ba-phalas etc related to this case ?]


-deepayan