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Plurality and Case

The case markers given below can be added to nouns marked for plural, in which case the final retroflex lateral ª l shows up. Nouns with final morphophonemic changes (sec. ??) do not exhibit these changes before the plural, but nouns ending in Ç£ am change this to Çõ ang before plural.In ST this is not as serious in transliteration as it is in Tamil script, i.e. in script we must have ¾Àõ´ rather than *¾À£õ´, but in transliteration we will just have maranga `trees', phonetically [m '025 r '025 '070 ga].

Ðõ´ ÂÖàõ´×Ä ½Ô¢Ø»¨ onga viidungale paatteen `I saw your house s-ACC.'


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