Lesson 10: Complex Vowel Sandhi

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• Quiz

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Respond to the following in the box below. (In addition, if anything in the video was unclear or you have any feedback about it, please provide it in the space below.)

1. Why, historically, do e and o in Sanskrit disassemble into a-i and a-u while ai and au disassemble into ā-i and ā-u?
   
2. Which complex vowels regularly disassemble and drop their semivowel before a vowel in external sandhi?