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Chithi (Tamil: சித்தி) means mother's younger sister, or father's younger brother's wife, or father's second wife in Tamil. In Indian English, it may refer to aunty (friendly older woman) Chithi, Chitthi, or variation, may also refer to: Chithi (Tamil: சித்தி), a 1999 Tamil television series on Sun TV
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.
The rules of pronunciation given in the Tolkāppiyam, a text on the grammar of old Tamil, says that the āytam in old Tamil patterned with semivowels and it occurred after a short vowel and before a stop; it either lengthened the previous vowel, geminated the stop or was lost if the following segment is phonetically voiced in the environment. [26]
Tamil only gets a passing mention, but we (Kbb2, Aeusoes1 and I) endorsed the use of the diacritic in Malayalam /d̪, t̪ʰ, d̪ʱ/ even though they don't contrast with alveolar because /t̪/ and /t/ contrast in that language. Granted, Tamil is not as clear-cut a case as Malayalam given plosives and nasals are not exactly the same manner of ...
Chitthi is an adaptation of the play Dayanidhi written by Vai. Mu. Kothainayaki Ammal. [1] Cinematography was handled by R. Sampath, and editing by R. Devarajan. [2] Padmini initially recommended Srividya for the character of her mute sister for which she practiced being mute in home; however she was replaced by Vijayasree.
Peacock, a type of bird; from Old English pawa, the earlier etymology is uncertain, but one possible source is Tamil tokei (தோகை) "peacock feather", via Latin or Greek [37] Sambal, a spicy condiment; from Malay, which may have borrowed the word from a Dravidian language [38] such as Tamil (சம்பல்) or Telugu (సంబల్).
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 .
The Tamil script (தமிழ் அரிச்சுவடி Tamiḻ ariccuvaṭi [tamiɻ ˈaɾitːɕuʋaɽi]) is an abugida script that is used by Tamils and Tamil speakers in India, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Singapore and elsewhere to write the Tamil language. [5] It is one of the official scripts of the Indian Republic.