<Tr> <Td> எ </Td> <Td> </Td> <Td> ஒ </Td> <Td> ஏ </Td> <Td> </Td> <Td> ஓ </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Open </Th> <Td> </Td> <Td> </Td> <Td> </Td> <Td> (aɪ̯) </Td> <Td> aː </Td> <Td> (aʊ̯) </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> அ </Td> <Td> </Td> <Td> ஐ </Td> <Td> ஆ </Td> <Td> ஒள </Td> </Tr> <P> Tamil consonants are presented as hard, soft and medial in some grammars which roughly corresponds to plosives, nasals and approximants . Unlike most Indian languages, Tamil does not distinguish aspirated and unaspirated consonants . In addition, the voicing of plosives is governed by strict rules in centamiḻ . Plosives are unvoiced if they occur word - initially or doubled . Elsewhere they are voiced, with a few becoming fricatives intervocalically, which means that voicing is not a phonological trait for plosives . Nasals and approximants are always voiced . </P>

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