From: Grzegorz Jagodzinski
Message: 40935
Date: 2005-10-01
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Ryan" <proto-language@...>Perhaps it is not Tamil but Dravidian - why not? See Dravidian words, ex. on
> wrote:
>> ***
>> Patrick:
>>
>> One swallow does not a summer make.
>>
>> If you have access there, I would be curious to know more about
> Doma; its
>> language affiliation (presumably Tamil???), and what Doma means in
>> it.
>
> But _Doma_ has a very un-Tamil initial letter:
>
> 1) It's a voiced stop - a mark of a foreign word.
>
> 2) Unlike Indic languages, Tamil does not allow words to start with
> retroflex stops.
>
> Richard.