12 Sep
2013
12 Sep
'13
12:24 p.m.
Oh, so *that's* what you mean by a "long A". On 2013-09-12, at 11:03 AM, Allan Wechsler wrote:
The long A is after the R. In Tamil (and Hindi) short A sounds like "uh", and long A like "ah".
The syllabification is Vi-ja-ya-ra-gha-van, so there isn't much diphthong (long I) effect. For an English example, I can make up a word, "a-yearning". There's *sort of* a long I audible there, but it's not salient.