Tirunelveli Tamil
Nellai Tamil, also known as Tirunelveli Tamil, is one of the dialects of Tamil which is spoken in the districts of Tirunelveli and Thoothukudi as well as over the vast area of south Tamil Nadu which was once ruled by the Pandiya Kings. Nellai Tamil is also known as Thenpaandi Tamil. Thenpaandi Seemai refers to the part of a Pandya kingdom which includes the present day Tirunelveli and Tuticorin Districts.
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Features
The Tirunelveli Tamil Dialect (TTD) has on the whole 41 phonemes of which 31 are segmental and the remaining 10 are suprasegmental.[1] 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 undergone the change to the dental "s" as in most other dialects.[2]
Regions of Nellai Tamil
- Tirunelveli City
- Palayamkottai
- Tuticorin
- Virudunagar
- Poovankurichi
- Tenkasi
- Panpoli
- Vadakarai
- Kovilpatti
- Ambasamudram
- Alangulam
- Sankarankovil
- Tiruchendur
- Manadu
- Ezuvaraimukki
- Srivaikundam
- Nazareth
- Udangudi
- Thisayanvilai
- Nanguneri
- kadayanallur
- Radhapuram
- Sathankulam
- Vallioor
- pavoorchatram
- Sengottai
- sivanadanoor
- KURUMBALAPERI
- Puliyangudi
- Vickramasingapuram
- Papanasam
Words of Nellai Tamil
- Annaachi = address a known or unknown elder person
- Yemmaa = address a known or unknown female
- eppadi irukkeeya = How are you
- Chuvamthaana = are you doing well?
- chuvamaa irukeyalaa = Are you doing well, Are you in good health
- Elei, yala = Dai, Hi dude
- Yabla = Di
- ava = she
- thooraama poreeya = are you going far
- avan cholludhamle = He says
- naa cholludhamla =I am telling you
- pailuva = boys
- pottachi = girl
- ponjadhi = wife
- payabulla = fellow
- enga = where
- ingana = Here
- angana = there
- nikki = waiting, standing
- choli = work
- engala pona avan = where did he go
- andhaanikku = so
- Kalavaani = Thief
- aviya, iviya = Him (respectful form - III-person Singular), They (also used for III-person plural)
- settha neeram = After some time
- podi ulli = sambar vengayam (onion)
- pallari = periya vengayam (onion)
- Thoravan = Key (Chaavi)
- Pydha = Tyre
- Makka = used to address each other
- anthaala = Like wise(Appadiye)
- Kaangala = Not found(Kaanam)
- thoora pola = he or she is avoid
- thaai = elder sister(thangachi)
- Osaka = above(at a higher place)
- Methuva pola & bya pola = go slow
- Mandaya paru = look at the head
- Mooncha paru = look at the face
- Sanga aruthruvemla = cut the neck
Movies featuring Nellai Tamil
Nellai Tamil has been used in a number of Tamil movies. Some of them are Seevalaperi Pandi Dum Dum Dum, Saamy, Ayya, Kovil, Thamiraparani, Roja, Thirunelveli, Kushi, Sillunu Oru Kadhal, Raman Thediya Seethai, Pidichirukku, Kannum kannum, Dasavatharam, Seval, Thoothukudi, Veeramum Eeramum, Gentleman, Anniyan, Saadhu, Pudhu Nellu Pudhu Naatthu, Punnagai Mannan, Veelai Kedaiciruchu, Tanneer Tanneer, Kadal. osthi, singham, singham II
Kamal Haasan's 2015 movie Papanasam, a remake of the 2013 Malayalam film Drishyam, also features Nellai Tamil.
References
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