Re: [OT?] Seeking for sample words in Yi, Cree, Lao, Sinhala, Tam i

suzmccarth wrote:

> The other one is Deepavali but too obscure, sorry.

Yes, what is Deepavali?

> I reposted my page with Tamil at the top - 'thamizh'. To my flawed
> perception Tamil is pronounced as you expect from the English
> spelling 'Tamil'. The /zh/ value given to the final 'l' seems to
> differentiate in spelling the back 'l' from a front 'l' I have never
> heard a Tamil say anything close to 'thamizh' although that is how
> it is transliterated.

That would be an ASCII workaround. The final letter is normally
transliterated z with dot under, l with bar under, or r with dot under,
and the IPA transcription is turned-r, the alveolar approximant, the
same as American English r. There doesn't seem to be any reason for the
first h.
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...