Literary/Standard, however you want to label it, Tamil does distinguish its vowels by length — short or long.
However, in today's slurred/dialectal speech or even in Carnatic music the intended vowel length collapses here and there. Only a good socio-ethno linguist would be able to provide an accurate analysis. Regards, rajam > On Mar 3, 2022, at 7:11 AM, Harry Spier via INDOLOGY > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Dear list members, > I was asked if all Indian languages (North and South) have vowels > differentiated by length. > Thanks, > Harry Spier > > _______________________________________________ > INDOLOGY mailing list > [email protected] > https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology
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