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A PRIMER OP DRAVIDIAN PHONOLOGY.
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5. In Malayalam Primitive Dravidian r is faithfully preserved, bnt rr though written as such, is pronounced only as tt, and Tamil nr regularly becomes anu; e. g. :
Tamil: kantu (call) + Malay. kannu. Tamil: onru (one) + Malay. Onmu. Tamil : panri (pig) + Malay. panni.
Tamil: únru (fix) + Malay. únnu. 6. In Canarese, too, Primitive Dravidian is preserved, as in arivu knowledge,' karu call.'
Batr + rowel + consonant often becomes + consonant, e. g., arat to cry' becomes artsu. In New Canareso as in New Tamil and Telugu, the distinction between and is fast vanishing; and it is not infrequently represented by a double .
7. In Telugu it is preserved in the old dialect and is found often in the New dinlect. But the tendency in New Telugu is to replace it by r.
(a) ? remains :
Tamil Telugu. réru vēru (other).
Síru (hiss). ciru tsiru (small).
éru (river). tira teratsu (open). mdru máru (chan... biru dru (six).
sirai Sera (prison). (b) In some words r .
Tamil: varai (hill) is Tel. vara. Tamil : teritai.woman' is Tel, terava. Tamil : téru ear'is Tel. téru. Tamil: erupai "blood' is Tel. erupu. Tamil: tari.cat'is Tel. tariyu.
Tamil: tiru (finish) is Tel. tiru. (0) + vowel + voiceless consonant becomes r + consonant.
drut Su Artsu to cry'. mdrutsu wdrtju to change'. kurutsu kůrtsu to sit'. párurfu perts to look '.
terutsu tértfu to clear'. Note--C. P. Brown uniformly uses r, for both ? and r in his Dictionary.
(a), of tSiru and kuru (small) changes into 4 in Sandhi :
tiru + eluka = tfitteluks, small rat.'; kuşu + usuru = kattu saru'small life'.
