On Mon, February 28, 2011 11:07 am, Sri Raghava Kiran Mukku wrote:
However, interestingly, to my knowledge, it is only in
Kannada and
Malayalam
that Wikipedia is written as विकीपीडिय.
This is because these languages prefer nouns ending with short 'a' vowel
to long vowel 'aa'. It is very rare to see a name ending with 'kaa' or
'yaa' or 'paa' etc in Malayalam.
But if you see Tamil, they prefer nouns with long a vowel examples:
ராதிகா (Radhikaa), ராதா(raadhaa), இந்தியா(Indiaa).
Hindi and some other Indo Aryan languages delete the schwa at the end of
the noun, and if we write विकीपीडिय it is read as 'wikipediy' , the 'ə'
pronunciation is deleted at the end. But I think it is not there in
Sanskrit.
More here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwa_deletion_in_Indo-Aryan_languages
Thanks
Santhosh Thottingal
http://thottingal.in