I feel puzzled about some particular predominant consonents missing in some of the languages.
Like 'h' in Tamil - becomes 'g'. (mahesh becomes magesh)
At times as it comes out, even some tamil friends of mine find it hard to really pronounce the sound of 'h', like I find it hard to pronounce 'Zh' of Tamil/marathi.
in Bangla, likewise 'va' is *kind of* missing. not really missing, but it dominated by either 'ba', 'bha' or most commenly 'u+a'
other is, pronounciation of the first varna of the last name of Sachin Tendulkar amongst telugu-s. 'T' as in number <b>t</b>en is the common telugu pronounciation of Ten-dulkar that I come across amongst telugu friends, whereas rest of us pronounce it as 't' like in <b>t</b>elugu. they even pronounce 'Tamil' with hard 'T' (à¤) instead of 't' (त) as in '<b>t</b>elugu'.
I feel all of these are part of the accent related phonetic deviations from one place to the other. as they say in awadhi: 'sATha kosa pai pAnI badalai, ATha kosa pai vAnI' : ground-water changes every 60 kosa (1/3 of a mile?), whereas accent changes at every eight kosa.
Like 'h' in Tamil - becomes 'g'. (mahesh becomes magesh)
At times as it comes out, even some tamil friends of mine find it hard to really pronounce the sound of 'h', like I find it hard to pronounce 'Zh' of Tamil/marathi.
in Bangla, likewise 'va' is *kind of* missing. not really missing, but it dominated by either 'ba', 'bha' or most commenly 'u+a'
other is, pronounciation of the first varna of the last name of Sachin Tendulkar amongst telugu-s. 'T' as in number <b>t</b>en is the common telugu pronounciation of Ten-dulkar that I come across amongst telugu friends, whereas rest of us pronounce it as 't' like in <b>t</b>elugu. they even pronounce 'Tamil' with hard 'T' (à¤) instead of 't' (त) as in '<b>t</b>elugu'.
I feel all of these are part of the accent related phonetic deviations from one place to the other. as they say in awadhi: 'sATha kosa pai pAnI badalai, ATha kosa pai vAnI' : ground-water changes every 60 kosa (1/3 of a mile?), whereas accent changes at every eight kosa.