YAPT

Hello

Today, of course the tsunami damages around the Indian Ocean
and all this was in the evening news today.
However, the speaker repeatedly said [SRi "lANka] for <Sri
Lanka> and [ko"lAmbo] for <Colombo>. Is this really the
local pronounciation?! It was pronounced as if these places
were writen *Shri Lanka and *Columbo.
IIRC they're speaking Tamil on Sri Lanka, don't they?

Carsten

Reply