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Sanskrit with all these elaborate sandhi rules tolerates hiatus. Many examples can be given from Vedic and classical Sanskrit to substantiate this. In Tamil also one finds such hiatus lefte without modification but not very frequently. (வழங்கா ன் பொருள் காத் கப்பனே ல் , ԱՔ ○ ரு - ) இழந் தானென் றெண்ணப் படும்) The vowels a, and aa are to be articulated separately and prosody also warrants this separate utterance here. Dandiyalankaaram calls this kind of hiatus as Yathi Vazhu (up 3 sugg). It was indicated previously that in Spanish feminine words with a vowel beginning get the masculine definite article ‘El’ in the place of “La” to overcome hiatus. But there are many exceptions to that rule and like most other languages Spanish also tolerates hiatus. La ambicion (ambition) la arena (arenax, sand) la avenida (avenue) are some of the examples to illustrate the exception. The French language has also its quota of hiatus left as it is. In words like “naif.”, “noel”, and “aigua.” we find hiatus and it is indicated by a diaresis (two dots) over the second vowel to denote that that vowel is to be articulated as a separate sound. Esperanto, an artificial language invented by Dr. L. L. Zamenhof as an inter-national lingua franca, is the one language which has completely ignored hiatus. Dr. Zamenhof has developed that wonderful language by affixing prefixes and suffixes to Romance and Tuetonic language roots. In that process vowel prefixes come before vowels and vowel suffixes after vowel endings. But all these vowels are to be articulated separately though a little inconvenience it may cause to the speaker. The word for ‘I,’ in Esperanto "Mi’ and the suffix ‘a’ is added to it to get the possessive adjectfie ‘my’ as mi-Ha = mia. One must be careful to pronounce them with a pause or else unwittingly one may introduce a latent y or any other consonant in between. 2.93