Tolkappiyar

“ Words within brackets are definitions or examples of the old commentators of 13th century. Secondary or depending phoneme Shortened- [m] clusters [i] before [y] (kee’n’miyaa) 34/1 Shortened [u] will be discussed forthwith. 35/2 Six hard [u] blend vowel-consonants on long-phoneme and compound phonemes, [u] becomes short. 36/3 Vowel [u] becomes short even between compound words. (sukkukoo’du) 37/4 Softening-phoneme [h] (ஃ) stands between short-phoneme and one of the six hard [u] blend vowel-consonants. 38/5 Softening-phoneme [h] becomes in ending-word changing-coalescence. ”