South Asian Accents
Welcome to the site for the South Asian Accents Panel from the VASTA 2014 Conference in London England. Here you’ll find resources from the panelists for the 3 accents we covered. All resources are copyright their prospective creators.
Tamil — Eric Armstrong
Tamil Overview
Tamil Features: Vowels and Consonants of Tamil
Tamil Presentation Keynote Slides from the Panel (pdf)
A Tamil YouTube Playlist
IDEA: Sri Lanka 2
Wikipedia: Tamil Language
Omniglot: Tamil
Omniglot: Tamil Useful Phrases
Ethnologue: Tamil
World Atlas of Language Structures Online: Tamil
UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive: Tamil
Journal of the IPA: Illustration of the IPA — Tamil
SIL.org — List of Illustrations of the IPA
SoundBoard App
Bandra — Marina Tyndall & Helen Ashton
Bandra Speaker Models—with links to YouTube videos (PDF)
Panjabi — Philip Thompson & Erik Singer
Panjabi English Presentation (PDF)
Don’t be a Robot with Bhai Sahib Gurdarshan Singh (MP3)
CNN GPS Manmohan Singh (MP3)
Transcription of Manmohan Singh CNN Interview (PDF)
Panjabi Vowel Chart (PNG)
Panjabi Token Analysis (PDF)