Literary/Standard, however you want to label it, Tamil does distinguish its vowels by length — short or long.
However, in today's slurred/dialectal speech or even in Carnatic music the intended vowel length collapses here and there.
Only a good socio-ethno linguist would be able to provide an accurate analysis.
Regards,
rajam
Dear list members,
I was asked if all Indian languages (North and South) have vowels differentiated by length.
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