How is tamil pronounced

Enjoy the rest of the lesson! Learning the Tamil alphabet is very important because its structure is used in every day conversation. Without it, you will not be able to say words properly even if you know how to write those words.

The better you pronounce a letter in a word, the more understood you will be in speaking the Tamil language. Below is a table showing the Tamil alphabet and how it is pronounced in English, and finally examples of how those letters would sound if you place them in a word.

You saw how a letter is written and might be pronounced, but there is nothing better than hearing the sound of the letters in a video or audio. Below you will be able to hear how the letters above are pronounced, just press the play button:.

It is all because of the fact that the word "Tamil" got into English not from speakers of Tamil. It got into English from the Pali language and it is a cognate of the word Dravida. The Online Etymology Dictionary says :. Sign up to join this community. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group.

Create a free Team What is Teams? Learn more. Or at least "Thamil"? Asked 1 year, 5 months ago. Active 11 months ago. Viewed times. Improve this question. If the Wikipedia page on Tamil phonology is anything to go by, Tamil does not have aspirated stops at all, so th does not even exist in Tamil. Also according to Wikipedia, the sound colloquially tends to shift towards [l], so l may not be so very bad after all in a broad transcription.

I rolled back this question to its previous version; StackExchange doesn't let users delete questions that have upvoted answers, because upvotes generally mean "this answer is useful or valuable", so we want to keep them around for others who are curious to see. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Yellow Sky Yellow Sky Manu When you say "TH", is it a continuous sound that you can sustain for a long time like "S" , or a short one-time sound like "D"?

Manu huh? Manu As a native Tamil speaker, I don't agree with the "zh" usage.