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