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Table 6 Syllable structure in Malayalam with examples

From: Improving speech recognition systems for the morphologically complex Malayalam language using subword tokens for language modeling

Type

Syllable structure

Example

1

<BoW>a + vowel

<BoW> + vowel + special consonant

2

Consonant

Consonant + special consonant

Consonant + vowel sign + special consonant

3

Conjunct

Conjunct + special consonant

Conjunct + vowel sign + special consonant

4

Consonant+ virama + <EoW>b

Conjunct + + virama +<EoW>

  1. a Beginning of word
  2. b End of word