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The History of p in Kanarese

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 December 2009

A. N. Narasimhia
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The change of p, initial and intervocalic, to h in Kanarese was noticed by Western scholars early. Caldwell says “the initial p of nearly all the words-whether they are pure Dravidian or Sanskrit derivatives-changes to h”. A more careful study of this change of p to h was made by Kittel in his Grammar. He points out that initial p was changed to h in Kēśirāja's time (1260) optionally. But he has not given evidence from the inscriptions to show when p changed to h.

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies , Volume 8 , Issue 2-3 , January 1936 , pp. 673 - 680
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Copyright © School of Oriental and African Studies 1936

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References

page 673 note 1 CDG., pp. 156 and 157.

[The following abbreviations are used in this article:-

CDG. = B. Caldwell: Comparative Grammar of the Dravidian Languages.

EC. = Epigraphia Carnatica.

El. = Epigraphia Indica.

KBB. = Karnāṭaka Bhāṣā Bhūṣaṇa.

KG. = F. Kittel: Grammar of the Kanarese Language.

KSS. = Karṇāṭaka Šabdānušāsana.

KVV. = Karṇāṭaka Kavyavalökana.

MK. = Middle or Mediaeval Kannada.

NK. = New (Modern) Kannada.

OK. = Old Kannada.

S. = Sütra.]

page 673 note 2 KG., Sections 64, 184, 223, 224, 370.