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)