Lexical item Meaning {l CCC “day’ | "I" | | | | | | | | | || "Cobber" .basket maker” etc“ ווו: V ו: ויי.1 I lov N., in 11111. | |\ccoli arca is lounded by so many exclusive 1 ·, · pl. ··,·o··, wlı ıu lı · 1 · · · · ııvcıı [ ric in nature. So as per the defiin 1 ( 1 , , , , 11 a 1 era we can sa y that Na njil nad speech area is a s, was 1, .... I I this kind of classification of dialect area there 1. u in e violc ncc 11, l'1 o 1. I la ins Kurat In’s work viz., “The Dialect -s thrx of New / no l to so. 'I li is at las shows a number of such conventric isoplosse', socussing on 130 ston Area. I lence Prof. IK 111 at la calls (l, is arca as a local Area. 2. Southerin (liin loc' This dialect is being spoken in the districts Madurai, Tinneveli and Ramnad. In the phonological level the merger of {{ } > || is an inclusive isogloss. In the grammatical level also there are some isoglosses which are found exclusively in the southern dialect of Tamil. The epicene and honorific singular suffix - vuka 1 is an exclusive isogloss. eg. a-vuka!e “they? (hum.) (Acc.) The instrumental case suffix -e-H vacci is also an exclusive isogloss found in this dialect. eg. katti-e-vacci “with the knife” -mka is the imperative plural suffix in this dialect and it is sound only in the imperative forms like va: mka ‘come", po : mka "go" c (c. It is not found in the statements like a van vanta = n 249
