Diglossia: Formal and Informal TamilStudy of morphology and phonology in Tamil language. |
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adding affricates Annamalai apply Arabic assimilation avan becomes Bhasa boundary ca:riyai called cause century classical colloquial compared condition considered consonant consonant clusters constructions conti continuant Dative deletion derived dialect differentiate diglossia diglossic elder English Meaning Examples existence express final Formal Tamil forms function geminated give given glide grammar high variety Informal Tamil insertion Kannada Kannan kind lateral lexical items Linguistics literary literary language literature low variety marker morpheme mother na:n namely nasal natural necessary nouns occur particular past phonetic phonological rules position possible precedes present Redundancy Rules refer regional relation representation round seen segments sentences short shown situation social sonorant sounds speech spoken standard stops structure suffix syll syllabic tense tongue tree underlying representation University variations verb voice vowel whereas words write written