On Mon, February 28, 2011 11:07 am, Sri Raghava Kiran Mukku wrote: > However, interestingly, to my knowledge, it is only in Kannada and > Malayalam > that Wikipedia is written as विकीपीडिय.
This is because these languages prefer nouns ending with short 'a' vowel to long vowel 'aa'. It is very rare to see a name ending with 'kaa' or 'yaa' or 'paa' etc in Malayalam. But if you see Tamil, they prefer nouns with long a vowel examples: ராதிகா (Radhikaa), ராதா(raadhaa), இந்தியா(Indiaa). Hindi and some other Indo Aryan languages delete the schwa at the end of the noun, and if we write विकीपीडिय it is read as 'wikipediy' , the 'ə' pronunciation is deleted at the end. But I think it is not there in Sanskrit. More here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwa_deletion_in_Indo-Aryan_languages Thanks Santhosh Thottingal http://thottingal.in _______________________________________________ Wikisa-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisa-l
