Tamil Ealam includes Northern and Eastern parts of Sri Lanka which is about 1/3 of that country.
SriLanka actually does have an ethnic problem on Tamil people
Tamil is primarily spoken in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu and in the northern and eastern regions of Sri Lanka. It is also spoken in parts of Malaysia, Singapore, and among Tamil diaspora communities around the world.
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About 9.7 percent of Sunni and Shiya muslims are in Srilanka.
The language is Tamil which is spoken in South India and Srilanka.
The Tamil language is believed to have originated from the Dravidian people who inhabited the Indian subcontinent over 4,000 years ago. It is one of the oldest classical languages in the world and has a rich literary tradition.
Becos Tamil is the oldest of all the Dravidian languages. Epics are written in Tamil. Above all, Tamil is the only Indian language which is a National language in many countries, like Srilanka and Singapore.
LTTE was formed for having a separate Tamil eelam in the northern and north-eastern part of Sri Lanka.
It is tamils were first in srilanka, reason is that, when Emperor ashoka's son set his foot in northern srilanka, he was welcomed and served by an elderly Tamil speaking lady , local tamils of srilanka. then only sinhalese with Buddhist monks entered srlanka and started to thrive on with the support and hospitality of srilankan tamils.
Tamil. Among all Dravidian languages, it is Tamil which is most followed & used for communication by people of other languages, by a big margin. Apart from Tamilnadu, in Major cities of other south indian states, Tamil is the most follwed & used language, for communication, next to that state's official language and Hindi. In other parts of our country too, Tamil is the most known Dravidian language. In countries like Singapore, Malasia, Srilanka, Mauritius and even in Japan Tamil is the most used Indian Language. Tamil is an official language in Singapore & Srilanka. Tamil is the only Indian language which is an official language in other countries.
Since 1983, there has been on-and-off civil war, predominantly between the government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE, also known as the Tamil Tigers), a separatist militant organization who fight to create an independent state named Tamil Eelam in the North and East of the island.
Yes they are just lieing Tamil leader Prabhakaran is not dead, the government took some one else's body and pretended. So no one worry we will get our land back!