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Tamil pronunciation

Postby Ñíco » 2015-07-12, 23:28

Hey, I've been trying to learn how to read Tamil, but there seem to be conflicting sources on how to pronounce the consonants. I get that they change when they are at the beginning, in the middle of two vowels, or after another consonant, but I have heard dramatically different things on pronunciation. Help?
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Near fluent: [flag=]es-ES[/flag] [flag=]it[/flag]
Functional: [flag=]de[/flag] [flag=]fr-QC[/flag] [flag=]pt-BR[/flag] [flag=]af[/flag]
Near functional: [flag=]nl[/flag] [flag=]pl[/flag] [flag=]cs[/flag]
Studying: [flag=]yue.Hant[/flag] [flag=]ko[/flag] [flag=]ar[/flag] [flag=]bn[/flag] [flag=]fa[/flag]
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Re: Tamil pronunciation

Postby dEhiN » 2015-08-02, 16:06

What exactly are you confused about? Which consonants? Asking specific questions would help a bit more. :D
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Re: Tamil pronunciation

Postby vijayjohn » 2022-01-24, 22:51

I think maybe this was referring to consonants in general in those environments? For example, [k] generally changes to [h] (or [g], depending on which variety of Tamil) between vowels or after [ŋ].
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