Can we keep this discussion at Indic@unicode please.
On 17 February 2012 16:08, Mahesh T. Pai <[email protected]> wrote: > (Apologies to others for revisiting this, but...) > > Sinnathurai Srivas said on Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 02:01:03AM -0800,: > > > 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. > > 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. > > The limited (spoken) Tamil does use the /zha/ sound, as in > "eezhu" (as in seven) and "vaazhum". > > Since the "Point of Articulation" for both /zha/ and /LLA/ are > different, I feel your theory that Tamil writing represents "places of > articulation" is wrong. > > Mind correcting me? > > I have not studied Tamil at any level. And I may be entirely wrong. > > (note - while the charts describe U+0D34 as "Malayalam letter LLLA", > /zha/ is a more appropriate representation of that sound - it is > pronounced without the tounge touching anywhere, and tip of the tounge > bent back like the glyph itself. The 0D33, OTOH is pronounced with the > tounge touching the upper part of the <palate?>) > > -- > Mahesh T. Pai || > > >
