Richard Wordingham wrote:

>
> --- In qalam@yahoogroups.com, "suzmccarth" <suzmccarth@...> wrote:
> > Yes, but 'brook', from the quote, would actually be [pirUk]. Or
> > would it be pUrUk? I don't think there are initial voiced
> consonants
> > in Tamil anyway. So, obviously no voiceless vowel after a voiced
> > consonant.
>
> 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?
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...