Tamil Alphabet Chart - Learning Tamil Through English/hindi Page 37
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38LESSON 13
COMPOUNDING OF LETTERS AND WORDS
sa> i Za AaE r samaasa
1. Compounding of Characters
sa> i Za
PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE YOU BEGIN THE LESSON
i. This lesson is a brief Tamil version of a the rules outlined in a couple chapters from my book
“learn Sanskrit through English medium,” for the topics formulated in this lesson are parallel
in these two languages.
ii. Sanskrit sandhi is a mathematical addition of two characters, vowels or consonants. Sanskrit
ku@ t < t < u k” @ ` @ u )
samasa is the linking of two words with a logical definition. The sandhi (
pat> t > u pa@` @ u ) are both present in Tamil. Of course, from Sanskrit they have
and samasa (
ப
come into Hindi as well, directly and sometimes indirectly.
In Sanskrit, the samasa is a huge and one of the most beautiful linguistic aspects. However, in
Tamil, only the tatpau P asamaasa: aspect is used.
iii. This lesson is presented here in the form of sandhi and samasa rules. You will remember that
most of the sandhi rules are appropriately exemplified elsewhere in the earlier lessons of this
book and are summarized in Tables 5, 6 and 16.
iv. The sandhi rules can be further subdivided in to three categories of vowel-vowel sandhi,
consonant-vowel sandhi and consonant-consonant sandhi.
a@ y tham Aaya` t ama`
ஆ த
v. Although the visarga (
) is part of Tamil language, the interesting
technique of the Sanskrit visarga sandhi has not come into in Tamil. It remains the most
unique aspect of the Sanskrit language.
vi. The following collection of rules also serves as a reference checklist of all the rules you need
to know for the basic study of the Tamil language.
RangaRakes
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