Hindi and Tamil are geographically quite close to each other, but linguistically very distant: besides some vocabulary, the two share very little. Hindi descended from Proto-Indo-European via Proto-Indo-Aryan. Tamil, on the other hand, is a Dravidian language, and is thought to have originated in the Indian subcontinent, or possibly further east. Many European languages also descend from Proto-Indo-European, meaning that by some definitions English and French are closer to Tamil than Hindi is.
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