SV & Pn,

"By the same token, we might have to start demanding for changes in English to take care of basic 'deficiencies' like a missing 'aa', etc.,"

In human speach we have 12 vowel sounds. Most Indian languages have 12 vowels. English language has only 5 vowels. The voice-to-text recognition of English language makes it very difficult because of fewer vowels. In addition English also missing some base consonant such as 'dha' in 'this' and 'tha' in 'thank'. The consonants 'j', 'k' and 'v' did not exist in old English and they were added around 15th century. Even today, the word cat is spelled with 'c' not 'k'. Same with 'G' for 'J' and 'w' for 'v'.

In Telugu and other Indian languages have extra consonants and they were added to accomodate the sanskrit sounds. They are 'kha', 'gha', chha', jha. 'tta', 'dda', 'thha', 'bha' the stressed consonants. We can simply use the softer consnants and eliminate the stressed consnants. For example we can pronounce the word bell as 'ganta' not 'ghanta'. Pali, Bengali applied this technique and use only the softer consonants.

Most of the human speech have around 24 base consonant sounds and tamil is missing a few. Should Tamil add some missing base soft consonants? My answer is yes. The Tamil leader Y. Gopalachari is called VaiKo not VaiGo, becuase there is no 'ga' consonant in Tamil. People should understand language and script are two different things. When you add few consonants, you are adding to the script to make it more clear. That will not devalue the Language. Hope Tamils will rise up to this challenge!!