As I stated in my previous blog post the Tamil Language has 12 vowels. உயிர் எழுத்துசக்கள் is the Tamil way of writing the word vowels. The Tamil Word உயிர் translates into English as the word life and எழுத்துக்கள் translates into English as the word letters.
உயிர் is pronounced uyir
எழுத்துக்கள் is pronounced eluthukal
Another thing to note about Tamil Vowels is that they are broken into two categories. The two categories write in Tamil as குறிள் and தெடில். I don’t know the meaning to those words but I do understand what these categories represent. குறிள் represents the vowels with the shorter sounds while தெடில் represents the vowels with longer sounds. This will make sense if you look at the pronunciation I place beside each vowel bellow.
Bellow are the twelve Tamil Vowels: Here are the twelve Tamil Vowels and their sound is pronunciation(Just like how in the English Alphabet each letter has a name and a sound. A sounds like ah, etc ).
Letter How to Pronunciation the Sound
- அ A
- ஆ AA
- இ I
- ஈ II
- உ U
- ஊ UU
- எ E
- ஏ EE
- ஐ AI/AY
- ஒ O
- ஓ OO
- ஔ AU/OW
The following like will lead you to a website. This website has buttons that pronounce the letters sound to you:
http://www.southasia.sas.upenn.edu/tamil/tamilsound.html
I will not go into how to say the name of the Tamil Letter. Maybe some other day?
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