Dravidian

[stoutfellow]

toraks, you might like this one: Some Words of Dravidian Origin.

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[gooofy.livejournal.com]

The transliterations are in National Library at Kolkata romanization (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Library_at_Kolkata_romanization), which is a standard way of romanizing Indic scripts.

[toraks.livejournal.com]

Well, sure, they might be standard. But I've never studied Tamil as a linguist, or indeed, as someone in the English-speaking world. So I'm not familiar with the ways the language (or any Indian languages) are transliterated and it's confusing to me.

I have studied Tamil as a Tamilian by ancestry(not that I'm that great at it, or I'd probably get the transliterations), so I do know the Tamil alphabet. So those are much simpler for me to understand, rather than having to figure out which Tamil character the romanized letters are supposed to represent. :-) Mostly, I was just saying it was nice to see the Tamil characters because they're easier for me rather than having to struggle with the romanized versions!

[toraks.livejournal.com]

By the way, I just realized that you're the person that wrote that blog entry.

To clarify, my comment about having the characters there rather than just the transliterations wasn't a criticism of the entry, rather a compliment. I like seeing the original characters! (and the fact that I was confused by the transliterations is my problem, not yours)

[gooofy.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you enjoyed it. If you know if any other words, let me know!