On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 9:38 PM, Mahesh T. Pai <[email protected]> wrote:
> The limited (written) Tamil I know does not have a character / glyph > for the sound /zha/. (U+0D34 in Malayalam). Tamil instead uses the > (what I believe is the) equivalent of, U+0D33. > Mahesh, who said Tamil doesn't have a character for /zha/? This is quite crazy. Did you look at the Tamil codechart for the corresponding character of 0D34 viz 0BB4? Apparently not. Look at the chart. You will find that ழ and ഴ are quite similar. They are both descended from the Vatteluttu /zha/. And while ழ/ഴ is a retroflex approximant ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retroflex_approximant) ள/ള is a retroflex *lateral* approximant ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retroflex_lateral_approximant) and yes it *is* the palate which the folded tip of the tongue touches. As for the Point of Articulation theory, I have nothing to say except "let us go back to our work". -- Shriramana Sharma
