A Comparative Grammar of the Modern Aryan Languages of India v1.c6.53

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In the modern languages instances of elision are tolerably frequent, but they do not result in hiatus to such an extent as in Prakrit. Either one of the vowels goes out with the consonant or the two vowels which are left behind coalesce into one, or hiatus is avoided, as it is also in some kinds of prose Prakrit, by the insertion of य, व, or even ह. For the treatment of vowels in hiatus see §