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As in Proto Dravidian, literary Tamil words can't begin with an alveolar or retroflex consonant but in spoken Tamil some words begin with r and l because of deletion of the initial vowel, e.g. literary Tamil iraṇṭu, spoken Tamil raṇḍu~reṇḍu. [21] In loanwords, a short i, u or a is added before them, e.g. Skt. loka, Tamil ulakam.
In the Tamil script, similar to visarga (which is called āyutha eḻuttu (ஆயுத எழுத்து), āytam (ஆய்தம்), muppaal pulli, thaninilai, aghenam), is represented with three small circles to the right of a letter as ஃ.
This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Tamil on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Tamil in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.
If a word with kutriyalikaram is followed by a word with 'ய'(ya) as the first letter, the u sound is corrupted to i sound and takes a half unit of time for pronunciation. In Aikarakurukkam and Aukarakurukkam , the duration of the letters ஐ and ஔ are reduced to 1 1/2 units if they are the first letters of the word.
The Tamil speech has incorporated many phonemes that were not part of the Tolkāppiyam classification. The letters used to write these sounds, known as Grantha, are used as part of Tamil. These are taught from elementary school and incorporated in Tamil All Character Encoding (TACE16).
Tamil words consist of a lexical root to which one or more affixes are attached. Most Tamil affixes are suffixes. Tamil suffixes can be derivational suffixes, which either change the part of speech of the word or its meaning, or inflectional suffixes, which mark categories such as person, number, mood, tense, etc.
Tiru (Tamil: திரு), [9] also rendered Thiru, is a Tamil honorific prefix used while addressing adult males and is the equivalent of the English "Mr" or the French "Monsieur". The female equivalent of the term is tirumati .
See English alphabet#Letters for how the names of the letters of the alphabet are spelled. Similarly, the dispute over how to pronounce the X in Mac OS X may be better described as ten versus ex rather than as / ˈ t ɛ n / versus / ˈ ɛ k s /. In the case of Z, spelling out the letter as zee or zed is sufficient, if only one is considered ...