Sanskrit - 2

[Bharatvarsh2]

Why "r" and 'l' are part of vowels, and there is no long-a (A) and no long-o (O)s in Sanskrit.

The r and l you mention do not have phoenetic equivalents in English so I don't know how to explain but ra and la are consonants.



There is a long "A" in sanskrit, check the letter right after a it has a line on top of it, that's long A.



I don't know why Sanskrit doesn't have short o's and e's (not long-o). The o and e are pronounced how you would pronounce the long e and o in southern languages so Sanskrit lacks short e's and o's. If you want to write Telugu in the Roman script you write dEsam for country (because there is a short e in Telugu) but in Sanskrit written in Roman script you just write desha. Perhaps the shorter e's and o's were lost similar to how La the retroflex of la is no longer used in Sanskrit but is used in Southern languages.