sandhi
Sign in to saveSandhi ( ; , ) is any of a wide variety of sound changes that occur at morpheme or word boundaries. Examples include fusion of sounds across word boundaries and the alteration of one sound depending on nearby sounds or the grammatical function of the adjacent words. Sandhi belongs to morphophonology.
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- Types
- Internal and external sandhi
- Tone sandhi
- Examples
- Celtic languages
- Portuguese
- Consonant sandhi
- Vowel sandhi
- German dialects
- English
- French
- Japanese
- Korean
- Tamil
- Vowel position
- Examples in Spoken Tamil
- Sandhi following front vowels
- Sandhi following back vowels
- Consonant sandhi
- Elision
- Noun cases
- Sanskrit
- Examples of external vowel sandhi
- Examples of external consonant sandhi
- See also
- References
- External links
Sandhi ( ; , ) is any of a wide variety of sound changes that occur at morpheme or word boundaries. Examples include fusion of sounds across word boundaries and the alteration of one sound depending on nearby sounds or the grammatical function of the adjacent words. Sandhi belongs to morphophonology.
Sandhi occurs in many languages, e.g. in the phonology of Indian languages (especially Sanskrit, Tamil, Sinhala, Telugu, Marathi, Hindi, Pali, Kannada, Odia, Bengali, Assamese and Malayalam). Many dialects of British English show linking and intrusive R.