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Attention: Please note that the letters and ¥ denote [ and V respec-
tively, in Tamil. Also note that ¥ì sounds almost like hä , ¥¸ì like iä , and
so on. The consonant-cluster w®ì is pronounced somewhere between w®ä and
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