Help:IPA/Tamil
The charts below show the way in which the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents Tamil pronunciations in Wikipedia articles. For a guide to adding IPA characters to Wikipedia articles, see {{IPA-ta}} and Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Pronunciation § Entering IPA characters.
Tamil has phonological process by which voiceless plosives are altered to their respective voiced sounds because of their position in a word (word initial versus word medial) or presence of preceding vowel sounds.
See Tamil phonology for a more thorough discussion of the sounds of Tamil.
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See also
- IPA vowel chart with audio
- IPA pulmonic consonant chart with audio
- IPA chart (vowels and consonants) - 2015. (pdf file)
Notes
- ^ a b [ɖ] and [ɽ] occur as word-medial and intervocalic allophones of /ʈ/.
- ^ ⟨த⟩ represents [ð] in intervocalic position.
- ^ ⟨க⟩ represents [h] in intervocalic position, but not when it appears as the first letter of a word.
- ^ a b Dental [n̪] and alveolar [n] are allophones in Tamil. Both sound like /n/ to English speakers.
- ^ ⟨ற⟩ represents [dr] and [tːr] after corresponding nasal consonant and when geminated, respectively, in which the [t] and the [d] represent the voiceless and voiced postalveolar stops.
- ^ ⟨ச⟩ represents [s] in intervocalic position.
- ^ a b c Only in loanwords.
- ^ word final /u/ is pronounced as [ɯ]
Citations
Bibliography
- Keane, Elinor (2004), "Tamil", Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 34 (1): 111–116, doi:10.1017/S0025100304001549
External links
- Tamil to IPA converter : Free online tool to convert Tamil text to IPA phonetic transcription.