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There are no such inscriptions and no reference was given, so that sentence without reference is deleted. There is no record of a settled and independant Tamil population in Sri Lanka prior to the establishment of the Jaffna Kingdom in ca. 1215, which came about as a result of an invasion. How native that is, is questionable. Also given the fact that Tamils have the same culture, religion and language as the rest of the Tamils, it is quite evident that it is not native to the island Lanka but to Tamil Nadu. But Ceylonese Tamils are considered native, and are native and natives of Sri Lanka in all matters considered. Therefore I have previously edited away the word considered too, since that gives a wrong impression. But to say that Tamils are native to Sri Lanka, on the basis of an inscription from 1500 BC, even if there was an inscription, is wrong, because the Tamil culture originated and evolved to what it is today, in Tamil Nadu and other parts of South India, not Sri Lanka. In comparision to the Plantation Tamils, Ceylonese Tamils came earlier and settled in North and East. That's the only difference. Many Plantation Tamils too moved to North and East and are considered Ceylonese Tamils today. SriSuren (talk) 10:35, 10 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
