©M.S. Zunoomy, U. Israth, & A.M.M. Aaqil
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Al-Lisan: Jurnal Bahasa (e-Journal), Volume 7, No. 2, August 2022 161
Volume 7, No. 2, August 2022
ISSN 2442-8965 (P) ISSN 2442-8973 (E)
Contrastive Study on Differences in Sentence Aspects between Arabic,
Tamil, and English Languages
M.S. Zunoomy (Corresponding Author)
zunoomy@seu.ac.lk
South Eastern University of Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka
U. Israth
israth@seu.ac.lk
South Eastern University of Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka
A.M.M. Aaqil
aaqilamm@seu.ac.lk
South Eastern University of Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka
Abstract: This research focuses on studying differences in sentence elements
between Arabic, English, and Tamil by exposing similarities and
dissimilarities. It uses a descriptive contrastive methodology. This research is
based on a theory of linguistics. According to this, the researchers used books,
articles, theses, and website articles to obtain the necessary information for
Secondary data. It finds that Arabic, English, and Tamil belong to different
linguistic families. The Arabic language belongs to the Semitic languages, no
matter what, Tamil language belongs to Dravidian, and English belongs to the
Indo-European family. In this case, they specialize in specific sentence
elements according to their linguistic components. Based on this, there are
more differences than similarities. For example, there are differences in
gender, numeral, tense, pronouns, adjectives, genitives, and articles. These
things affect learning a language as a foreign or second language. This study
helps the learners to get the differences between the languages. Learners of
Arabic, a foreign language, should pay attention to their own language
grammar in order to be fluent in both languages to study the Arabic linguistic
system in contrast to the Tamil language for learning a language in the best
way and to learn Tamil language in the best way, regardless of their mother
tongue to learn Arabic fluently.
Keywords: Translation; sentence; Arabic; Tamil; English; linguistics
A. INTRODUCTION
A complete sentence, which expresses the simplest complete mental forms on
which it is intolerable, consists of three main elements: subject, verb, and predication.
There are various sentence elements in every language. The sentences contain elements
that build a meaningful sentence. Based on this, Arabic is one of the Semitic language