Features
The Tirunelveli Tamil Dialect (TTD) has on the whole 41 phonemes of which 31 are segmental and the remaining 10 are suprasegmental. Nellai Tamil also preserves archaic kinship terms that other dialects have long discarded. However, the most unique feature of the Tamil spoken in the Tirunelveli region is that the medial c is pronounced as a voiceless palatal affricate as in Old Tamil (like the Sanskrit j) and has not underwent the change to the dental s as in most other dialects.
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