Dear All,
Anusvara and Visarga are not required for Tamil.
Tamil Grammar (first chapter) deals with writing system.
Tamil writing system is different to mostly other Indic system.
primarily, Tamil alphabet does not represent sounds, but represents Places
of articulation.
Most Indic alphabet
N. Ganesan naa dot ganesan at gmail dot com wrote:
On another thinking, I feel it will be even better to add more
characters to Tamil to help in transliterating from other Indian
languages.
Yes. Anusvara and Visarga are core characters needed for
transliteration in Tamil script.
The Indic,
Srivas: You shouldn’t take a narrow view of the impact of the Tamil script.
Apparently, there are people that embrace it even when trying to write text in
languages other than the primary one it was associated with. This is not unlike
people using Hangul script for phonetic transcription of
Dear All,
There is a misunderstanding about Tamil here.
To my knowledge, in day to day usage Tamil uses far more sounds than any
language in the world. This is because Tamil alphabet represents places of
articulation and it is scalable. Alphabet that represent sound is not
scalable but straight
Dear All,
There is a misunderstanding about Tamil here.
To my knowledge, in day to day usage Tamil uses far more sounds than any
language in the world. This is because Tamil alphabet represents places of
articulation and it is scalable. Alphabet that represent sound is not
scalable but straight
On 9 Feb 2012, at 11:34, Sinnathurai Srivas wrote:
To my knowledge, in day to day usage Tamil uses far more sounds than any
language in the world.
Nope.
So Tamil uses far more phoneme for any language.
Sorry, but this simply isn't true. For instance Tamil has 10 vowels [iː ɪ eː ɛ
uː ʊ oː
Dear Michael,
It is better if you do do some research before commenting.
you say Tamil has 10 vowels.
No Tamil has 5 basic PoA for generating vowels.
then it has 5 of double matrai (not matra) matrai is to do with
momental-timin!!!
then it has grammar rule to extend vowel timing further, which
On 9 Feb 2012, at 13:49, srivas sinnathurai wrote:
Dear Michael,
It is better if you do do some research before commenting.
you say Tamil has 10 vowels.
No Tamil has 5 basic PoA for generating vowels.
Please learn what a phoneme is.
Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/
Michael,
I had this discussion with many of the western theorists.
I'm sure that you are sure what I mean by phoneme and what you apparently
modify its meaning to make some ways.
take it that by phonemes I mean different sounds.
Now can you answer the 5 vowels as PoA in Tamil and numerous
On 9 Feb 2012, at 14:35, Sinnathurai Srivas wrote:
Michael,
I had this discussion with many of the western theorists.
I'm sure that you are sure what I mean by phoneme and what you apparently
modify its meaning to make some ways.
take it that by phonemes I mean different sounds.
The
Phoneme is tied to straight jacketed Alphabet as sound.
So the Western thoughts does not apply to
all sounds generateable represented by Alphabet as poA.
You could still agree to the existence of numerous vowel sounds represented
by structured PoAs.
The linguists are wrong with classical and
2012/2/9 Michael Everson ever...@evertype.com:
On 9 Feb 2012, at 13:49, srivas sinnathurai wrote:
Dear Michael,
It is better if you do do some research before commenting.
you say Tamil has 10 vowels.
No Tamil has 5 basic PoA for generating vowels.
Please learn what a phoneme is.
And not
I very much suspect you are mistaken in those assumptions. Nevertheless,
whether Tamil uses more sounds than this or that other language is immaterial.
What matters is _in what ways is Tamil script adapted in actual usage_ to
write other languages: if there is physical evidence that people
If you want to make claims about Tamil script having a scientific basis, please
take that up with Korean experts who make the same claim of their script, and
then let us know when you come to some agreement.
Peter
From: indic-bou...@unicode.org [mailto:indic-bou...@unicode.org] On Behalf Of
On 2012-02-09, srivas sinnathurai sisri...@blueyonder.co.uk wrote:
take it that by phonemes I mean different sounds.
Now can you answer the 5 vowels as PoA in Tamil and numerous vowel sounds
in day to day use in Tamil.
clearly different sounds, not allophones massaging, not phoneme massaging.
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