Lesson 1 ( 1)

The first thing you need to know is how to spell the Tamil words correctly. If you have not been writing or reading in Tamil regularly, you can get into serious trouble in spelling some of the Tamil words.

As you know, in Tamil, there are three "na" sounding alphabets, two "ra" sounding alphabets and three "la" sounding alphabets. You can easily get stumped if you are not familiar with them. If you make spelling mistakes they may connote different meaning and sometimes they look plain horrible on the screen. So please be careful and proof-read before you click on the send button in an e-mail program

Before we go any further, you need to know how to spell some sacrosanct words in Tamil. They are




܀Ƒ
ϙ

̯



򽀥





׫

Don't proceed any further unless you can write the above mentioned words without making any spelling mistakes (ളݍ)

꿽 (points)

1. All the words that end in have the Big
2. If it is a verb generally periya "ra" () is used
3. More words end in "" than in ""
4. If the word refers to an individual attribute, then it ends in ""
5. If a modification of "" follows "n" then the "n" has to be
Example


ׯ

6. If there are two r sounding letters then they have to be Big


7. If a word ends in r sound then it has to be

׹

э
э

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