Can we keep this discussion at Indic_at_unicode please.
On 17 February 2012 16:08, Mahesh T. Pai <paivakil_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> (Apologies to others for revisiting this, but...)
>
> Sinnathurai Srivas said on Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 02:01:03AM -0800,:
>
> > Anusvara and Visarga are not required for Tamil.
> > Tamil Grammar (first chapter) deals with writing system.
> > Tamil writing system is different to mostly other Indic system.
> > primarily, Tamil alphabet does not represent sounds, but represents
> > Places of articulation.
>
> The limited (written) Tamil I know does not have a character / glyph
> for the sound /zha/. (U+0D34 in Malayalam). Tamil instead uses the
> (what I believe is the) equivalent of, U+0D33.
>
> The limited (spoken) Tamil does use the /zha/ sound, as in
> "eezhu" (as in seven) and "vaazhum".
>
> Since the "Point of Articulation" for both /zha/ and /LLA/ are
> different, I feel your theory that Tamil writing represents "places of
> articulation" is wrong.
>
> Mind correcting me?
>
> I have not studied Tamil at any level. And I may be entirely wrong.
>
> (note - while the charts describe U+0D34 as "Malayalam letter LLLA",
> /zha/ is a more appropriate representation of that sound - it is
> pronounced without the tounge touching anywhere, and tip of the tounge
> bent back like the glyph itself. The 0D33, OTOH is pronounced with the
> tounge touching the upper part of the <palate?>)
>
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> Mahesh T. Pai ||
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