CONSONANTAL VOWELS - FOURTH SET

CONSONANTAL VOWELS - FOURTH SET

(Page 31 - 34 of the ebook)

The following table demonstrates how the fourth vowel ‘ஈ’’ combines with each of the 18 consonants to form consonantal vowels. The last column in the second table gives the Japanese meaning for the words.

When forming the fourth set of consonantal vowels i.e. when each consonant combine with the fourth vowel ‘ஈ’, a new symbol

is added to each of the first set of consonantal vowels. There are no other changes. All the consonantal vowels so formed ends with ‘ஈ’ sound like ‘kii’, ingii, sii, gnii, nii (listen to the audio for proper pronunciation) and so on. These sounds are rare and hence their usage is highly limited.

You can download from here the entire book for learning Tamil scripts. An applet showing the stroke order for the scripts can be downloaded from here.

Note: You need Java to view the applet. Unzip the zip file and open the "Tamil.html" file to view the applet. Click on the scripts to view the writing pattern. The audio icons seen in the image below will not work but the same will work in the ebook provided for download.

This completes the formation of the fourth set of consonantal vowels.

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