Similarities between South Korea and Tamil Nadu: The Unknown Link

V. RA. Alagu; G. Priyalakshmi

doi:10.34293/sijash.v11i2.6524

V. RA. Alagu Business Services Assistant, Fujitsu Consulting India, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India https://orcid.org/0009-0000-4239-0084
G. Priyalakshmi Director, Sri Ethiraja Technologies, Coimbatore, India & Visiting Professor, PSG Institute of Advanced Studies, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9234-3435

DOI: https://doi.org/10.34293/sijash.v11i2.6524

Keywords: Lexical Similarity, Cultural Similarity, South Korea, Tamil Nadu

Abstract

Tamil is one of the ancient languages which has an oldest extant literature. It is one of the longest surviving Dravidian languages dated from 300 BC. Korean is the native language for about 80 million people all over the world. Modern Korean was developed by King Sejong the Great in the 15th century. While analyzing the Tamil and Korean scripts, there was a certain amount of similarity in both text and grammar of these two languages. Despite the geographical separation of these two peninsulas, they share a considerable extent of literature and cultural resemblance. Hence, this proposed work provides a proof for the similarity with the help of a theoretical research study. This work portrays a list of words taken from Korean and Tamil Literature as samples and classifies them as complete or partial based on their similarity. It also lists verbs which after conjugation have a lexical similarity.

Author Biography

V. RA. Alagu, Business Services Assistant, Fujitsu Consulting India, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India