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Richard Wordingham wrote:For the initial clusters, the vowel comes before the two consonants. This seems to be the rule even if the cluster results from elision. (The Thai script seems to have no avagraha.)
For medial clusters, the rules are more complicated. I haven't been able to find a statement of the rules, so I'm having to look at examples. Some of the rules are fairly clear:
1) Nasal plus oral stop is split by a vowel.
2) Nasal geminates are split
3) มฺห is split. On the other hand, มฺย might not be split - but I only have one examples so far.
4) Homorganic stop clusters are split by the vowel.
5) Oral stop plus semivowel (e.g. ตฺร, พฺย) is not spit by a vowel (muta cum liquida).
An interesting example of the interaction of these rules is ภุญฺเชฺย.
ยฺย is a nasty case - sometimes the vowel comes before, sometimes afterwards.
I intend to do a corpus search on the texts from http://www.learntripitaka.com/ . Unfortunately, it's not free from typographical errors, and they used a non-standard coding to get round rendering problems that are now largely history.
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