| Criteria | Korean | Tamil |
| linguistic syntactic typology? | SOV (Subject-Object-Verb) | SOV (Subject-Object-Verb) |
| Arrangement/pattern of Vowels and Consonants | 1. Abugida language as it has a syllabic concept with an explicit case called bitchem | 1. Abugida language as it has explicit compund letters that even specially transcribed |
| Phonemic orthography | Yes: Given the explicitly written syllabic nature | Yes: Given the explicitly written syllabic nature |
| Morphology: Agglutination or fusional | Tamil is an agglutinative language. Root word is combined with suffixes to form words | Korean is an agglutinative language. Root word is combined with suffixes to form words |