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In spoken Tamil sometimes an epenthetic vowel u is added to words ending in consonants, e.g. nil > nillu, āḷ > āḷu, nāḷ > nāḷu (nā in some dialects), vayal > vayalu etc. If another word is joined at the end, it is deleted. [9] Colloquially, the high short vowels /i/, /u/ are lowered to [e] and [o] when next to a short consonant and ...
In Unicode 5.1, named sequences were added for all Tamil consonants and syllables. Unicode 5.1 also has a named sequence for the Tamil ligature SRI (śrī), ஶ்ரீ, written using ஶ (śa). The name of this sequence is TAMIL SYLLABLE SHRII and is composed of the Unicode sequence U+0BB6 U+0BCD U+0BB0 U+0BC0.
Consists of only five words. The suffix -aṟṟ(u) is added to the end of the word. 3 vīṭu: vīṭṭ(u)-house The consonant in the last syllable -ṭu or -ṟu is doubled, yielding -ṭṭ(u) or -ṟṟ(u). This applies to all words that end in -ṭu or -ṟu, except those consisting of two short syllables.
The verb comes at the end of the clause, with a typical word order of subject–object–verb (SOV). [113] [114] However, word order in Tamil is also flexible, so that surface permutations of the SOV order are possible with different pragmatic effects. Tamil has postpositions rather than prepositions. Demonstratives and modifiers precede the ...
Sentence-final particles, including modal particles, [1] interactional particles, [2] etc., are minimal lexemes (words) that occur at the end of a sentence and that do not carry referential meaning, but may relate to linguistic modality, register or other pragmatic effects.
Venpa or Venba (வெண்பா in Tamil) is a form of classical Tamil poetry. Classical Tamil poetry has been classified based upon the rules of metric prosody. [1] Such rules form a context-free grammar. Every venba consists of between two and twelve lines.
Sandhi (Sanskrit: सन्धि, lit. 'joining', IAST: sandhi) is any of a wide variety of sound changes that occur at morpheme or word boundaries. Examples include fusion of sounds across word boundaries and the alteration of one sound depending on nearby sounds or the grammatical function of the adjacent words.
Tamil has phonological process by which voiceless plosives are altered to their respective voiced sounds because of their position in a word (word initial versus word medial) or presence of preceding vowel sounds. See Tamil phonology for a more thorough discussion of the sounds of Tamil.