Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tamil and Japanese cognates


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The result was   speedy delete; only significant author has requested deletion. Would be happy to refund this at your user page if you want to keep working on it. - Smerdis of Tlön - killing the human spirit since 2003! 20:28, 2 July 2011 (UTC)

Tamil and Japanese cognates

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This article title could be "List of Tamil and Japanese words that sort of sound the same and have kind of the same meanings". There's no relation at all between Tamil and Japanese. It would be drawing a long bow to suggest this could be WP:MERGEd into False cognate. With greatest respect to the editor who started the article, this is at best very interesting original research. Shirt58 (talk) 12:57, 2 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Comment I speak Japanese. The Japanese romanization isn't even correct for many of these. I, Jethrobot drop me a line 14:14, 2 July 2011 (UTC)

I started this article, and I partly agree with the above comments. Scholars have long debated the connection between Japanese and Tamil, but to rule off by saying "There's no relation at all between Tamil and Japanese" is ridiculous. And "The Japanese romanization isn't even correct for many of these." if you mean 'ou' instead of 'ō', that is a common transliteration style used as it forgoes the need of having to use the diacritic mark for elongated.

I agree that the article should be deleted, not for the above reasons, but because I have yet to find a near exhaustive list of cognates, while Japanese and Tamil show structural similarities (I speak both), because of their outside influence from Chinese and Sanskrit respectively it is hard to draw definite conclusions. Time to hit the Susumu Ouno sensei's books.

--Avedeus (talk) 15:36, 2 July 2011 (UTC)

For all of them that doubt, http://books.google.com/books?id=sD-MFTUiPYgC&pg=PA106&lpg=PA106&dq=Japanese+and+Tamil+cognates&source=bl&ots=hlGla6xLXJ&sig=b1hCau2V95HHAKYIkcmQ8IarqwU&hl=en&ei=iTsPTp2qFoi1hAeU-ZyCDg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8&ved=0CEAQ6AEwBzgK#v=onepage&q=Japanese%20and%20Tamil%20cognates&f=false, nevertheless, you can delete it guys.--Avedeus (talk) 15:41, 2 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Note to closing admin The sole author of the article has requested its deletion. I, Jethrobot drop me a line 18:40, 2 July 2011 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.