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. On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 1:41 PM, Dan Asimov <dasimov@earthlink.net> wrote:
Re Vijayaraghavan:
Maybe it's Tamil, but it sure looks like a not-unusual name in Hindi with a typical transliteration into English.
In which case I'd venture that the second vowel sound is like a long I.
(But where is the long A sound?)
--Dan
On 2013-09-12, at 10:29 AM, Allan Wechsler wrote:
As close as I can tell, it's vee-juh-yuh-RAH-guh-vun. (The fact that the third A is long can't be seen in English spelling, but is visible in the original Tamil.)
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