Richard Wordingham wrote:

>
> --- In qalam@yahoogroups.com, "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@...>
> wrote:
> > Richard Wordingham wrote:
> > > Spoken Tamil does have initial voiced stops - or so it is often
> > > reported, e.g. look at
> > > http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/plc/tamilweb/book/chapter1/chapter1.html
> > > and follow the link to voiced consonants.
> >
> > _Phonemic_ ones?
>
> Yes. There wouldn't be much point in discussing them if they
> weren't! On the other hand, I would not be surprised if /f/ were
> marginal.

Then it's odd indeed that the Tamil script doesn't provide for them.

And that Sandy Steever doesn't recognize them.
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...