Diglossia: Formal and Informal TamilStudy of morphology and phonology in Tamil language. |
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a:ttukku affricates alveolar Annamalai assimilation aval avan Bengali bidialectal Calit Bhasa classical cluster reduction rule come-past-PT consonant clusters consonantal conti Creole Dative Dative case marker derived dialect differentiate diglossia diglossic situation Examples feature syllabic Fiji Hindi Formal and Informal Formal Tamil FT Rule function geminated consonants glide grammar Haitian Creole high variety Hindi illai Informal Tamil IT/FT English Meaning Kannada Kannan lateral consonant lexical items Linguistics literary language literary Tamil literary variety literature low variety Malayalam modern standard Arabic modern Tamil morpheme Murugan na:n nasal consonant obstruent participle phonetic phonological features phonological rules poss Redundancy Rules retroflexion rule rule Rule Sadhu Bhasa segments sentences shown Sonorant deletion rule sounds speech community spoken language standard spoken Tamil stops structural description surface representation syll syntactic systematic phonemic Telugu underlying form underlying representation variety of Tamil verb vitta:n voice word boundary word final written Tamil