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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.
The charts below show the way in which the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents Tamil pronunciations in Wikipedia articles. For a guide to adding IPA characters to Wikipedia articles, see Template:IPA and Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Pronunciation § Entering IPA characters.
Tamil phonology is characterised by the presence of "true-subapical" retroflex consonants and multiple rhotic consonants.Its script does not distinguish between voiced and unvoiced consonants; phonetically, voice is assigned depending on a consonant's position in a word, voiced intervocalically and after nasals except when geminated. [1]
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 ...
In Tamil, a single letter standing alone or multiple letters combined form a word. Tamil is an agglutinative language – words consist of a lexical root to which one or more affixes are attached. Most Tamil affixes are suffixes .
The Consortium points out that Unicode Tamil is now implemented by all major operating systems and web browsers, and maintains that it should be used in open interchange contexts, such as online, since tools such as search engines would not necessarily be able to identify or interpret a sequence of Unicode private-use code points as Tamil text ...
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Learn to edit; Community portal; ... Tamil Letter அ. Date: Original uploaded on 2010-11-07 ... First Alphabet and First vowel of language 'Tamil'.