On 2012-02-09, srivas sinnathurai <sisri...@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote: > take it that by phonemes I mean different sounds. > Now can you answer the 5 vowels as PoA in Tamil and numerous vowel sounds > in day to day use in Tamil. > clearly different sounds, not allophones massaging, not phoneme massaging.
So can you give us an example of two words that have two "clearly different sounds", but are written with the same vowel in the standard orthography? -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.
