Phonology and Transliteration Introduction. Background. Standard Spoken Tamil. Phonetics of Spoken Tamil Tamil Vowels Initial Position Final Position Words ending in a vowel plus nasal. The epenthetic vowel Ë u Words ending in Sonorants, Liquids and Glides Rhotics, final and otherwise. Nasal Consonants. Glides. Stop consonants Deletion of intervocalic ¬ v and ¡ k Voiced Consonants. Gemination Vowel length Transliteration of LT and ST. Appendix About this document ... Harold_F.Schiffman
