[INDOLOGY] Tamil pronunciation

[Artur Karp]

Dear Friends,

allow me to ask several questions, re pronunciation of Tamil.

The first of them:

Tamil தீவுக்கூட்டம்  - is transliterated as Tīvukkūṭṭam. Is it formally
pronounced as Tivu*kk*uttam - or as Tivu*k*uttam?

Artur Karp

pon., 3 cze 2019 o 09:01 Artur Karp <karp at uw.edu.pl> napisał(a):

> My thanks to all who devoted their time to answer my (retired
> non-dravidist's) question.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Artur Karp
>
> pon., 3 cze 2019 o 09:00 Tieken, H.J.H. <H.J.H.Tieken at hum.leidenuniv.nl>
> napisał(a):
>
>> Dear Artur,
>>
>> The Tamil script does not have letters for the voiced plosives (and no
>> aspirates). For that it uses the corresponding voiceless plosives. After a
>> nasal and between vowels k is pronounced  g: aṅku "there" is pronounces
>> aṅgu, āku "to become", āgu or āhu. Word-initial k is pronounced k, as in
>> kātal "love". So is double kk, as in the infinitive kākka "to protect".
>> This phenomenon used to be known by the expression "convertibility of surds
>> and sonants".
>> The "official" transcription is aṅku, āku, kātal, kākka. There is an
>> unofficial transcription used in English language publications. For
>> instance, kātali, " a lovely girl", is transcribed as kathali as well as
>> kadhali.
>> In our youngest son's class in primary school there was a girl from
>> Surinam called vasutha, that is, via vasutā, from Skt vasudhā.
>>
>> Herman
>>
>>
>> Herman Tieken
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>> 2515 BP Den Haag
>> The Netherlands
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>> website: hermantieken.com
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>> *Verzonden:* zondag 2 juni 2019 22:18
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>> *Onderwerp:* [INDOLOGY] Tamil pronunciation
>>
>> Dear Friends,
>>
>> Tamil இந்திய is transliterated as Intiya. Is it pronounced as In*t*iya -
>> or In*d*iya?
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> Artur Karp (ret.)
>>
>> Uniwersytet Warszawski
>> Polska
>>
>


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