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JULY, 1909.)
A PRIMER OP DRAVIDIAN PHONOLOGY.
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3. I will give here the pronunciation of other symbols, which I shall have to use hereafter under . dialectal changes': -
(a)- d 3. Is like j and dg in literary English judge, and the g in such words as gem, etc. (b) S is like the sh in literary English skip, fashion, etc. (o) sia like she ck in literary English chess, church, etc. (d) is voiceless and is like & in sit. (2) A is like the & in hand, head, etc.
(1) yis & relar-voiced spirant and corresponds to the pronunciation of g after a vowels in some parts of Germany, as in the word Lage. This is the development of medial g in Malayalam. Tamil aham is Malayalant ayam. .
. (s) to is affricate like the German in zahn, and this sound' is found in Telugu as a developement of initial l'.
(h) vis labio-dental and is like Sanskrit .
II.
Laws of Dravidian Sy Habstion.
(1) Ouly « voiceless stop or 1 nasal can commence a word, and it can, in no case, be a roof consonant or cerebral.
(2) No voiceless stop is admissible in the middle of a word or even at the end, except when it is doubled.'
(3)
Any consonant may end a word,
(4) Compound consonants can never begin & word; and the only compound consonants that are adınissible in a word, are :
(a) Voiceless stops doubled. (b) Combinations of nasals. (0) Nasal and consonant of the varge (a) yor! with a voiced consonant or y.or!, plos, musal and consonant of the dental varga. III. - The Influence of Accent-obsage on the Laws of Dravidian SyHabation,
Through the influence of sedent-change referred to in Section I, the above laws of Dravidian syllabation underwent the following modifications:
(1) Some medial doubled consonant were voiced in Canarese, Tala and Telugu: .. 9., Tamil tappai .a slit of bamboo' is dabbe in Canarese and Taļu and dabba in Telugu. Tamil kappu bad stell' is gabbu in Can., Taļu and Telugu.
(2) Some initial consonants in Canarose, Tuļa and Telaga were voiced especially when followed by a voiced consonant or liquid.
In the examples given above we find that bb inflenced the initialt and I and changed them into d and, Tamil käl wind is Canarese and Tulu gaļi and Telugu gali.
