TRACING VEDIC DIALECTS - People.fas.harvard.edu
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(§5.1-2). It is especially remarkable that certain localisable innovations<br />
in one level of Vedic language spread quickly during the next level.<br />
This does not always occur only in an Eastern direction, as one might<br />
think, (taking into account the history of settlement of N.India by IA<br />
speakers), but also in other directions, as for example southwards, or<br />
from the extreme East towards the West (§5.2)<br />
Especially clear is the example of the diffusion of the gen. fem. in -ai<br />
which originated in a small area of N. India (the Pañcāla land in Eastern<br />
U.P.) and subsequently spread east- and southwards, - without affecting,<br />
however, the West (the Kuru area) and the "North" (Panjab and the<br />
E.Gandhāra area of Pāṇini's bhāṣā).<br />
Among the innovations treated in this paper (and a forthcoming one,<br />
treated in Notes on Ved. dialects, 1) are the following:<br />
(1) In the field of phonetics:<br />
Innovations:<br />
* khy > kś (Kuru )<br />
* -ḍ- > ḷ- (Kuru)<br />
* -jm- > ym (part of Kuru area)<br />
* CuV > CV (Kuru)<br />
* purūvasu- > puro° (part of Kuru area)<br />
* parāyate, etc. > palā° (Kuru)<br />
* preṅkha > pleṅkha (part of Kuru area)<br />
* svar, etc. > suvar Pañcāla YV<br />
* tanacmi > tanakmi, etc. Prācya (Eastern dialect)<br />
Further diffusion of early Kuru innovations:<br />
* purovasu- (Pañcāla)<br />
* palāyate, etc. (Pañcāla)<br />
Retentions:<br />
* [ ch/śch ] retained (Kuru area: E. Panjab/W. Uttar Pradesh),<br />
later > [ cch ]<br />
Sandhi Innovations::<br />
* Sandhi -ān V- > aṃ V- (part of Kuru area)<br />
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