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2. Languages of Sri Lanka - Wikipedia

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   The main languages spoken in Sri Lanka are Sinhala and Tamil. Several languages are spoken in Sri Lanka within the Indo-Aryan, Dravidian, and Austronesian families. Sri Lanka accords official status to Sinhala and Tamil, with English as a recognised language. The languages spoken on the island nation are deeply influenced by the various ...

3. Ministry of National Languages and Social Integration

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   Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka. Headquarters. 40 Buthgamuwa road, Rajagiriya. 6°54′35″N 79°53′59″E  /  6.909775°N 79.899831°E  / 6.909775; 79.899831. Minister responsible. Mano Ganesan, Minister of National Co-existence Dialogue and Official Languages. Ministry executive. W.M.P.G. Wickramasinghe, Ministry Secretary.

4. Hayleys - Wikipedia

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   Hayleys is a Sri Lankan diversified conglomerate headquartered in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Its main offices are located in and around the premises; however other manufacturing, agricultural, marketing, and production bases are geographically spread around the country and throughout five different continents. Hayleys PLC has a National Long-Term ...

5. Sinhala script - Wikipedia

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   Telugu. v. t. e. The Sinhala script (Sinhala: සිංහල අක්ෂර මාලාව, romanized:Siṁhala Akṣara Mālāva), also known as Sinhalese script, is a writing system used by the Sinhalese people and most Sri Lankans in Sri Lanka and elsewhere to write the Sinhala language as well as the liturgical languages Pali and ...

6. Sinhala language - Wikipedia

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   [4] [1] Sinhala is also spoken as the first language by other ethnic groups in Sri Lanka, totalling about 2 million speakers as of 2001. [5] It is written using the Sinhala script, which is a Brahmic script closely related to the Grantha script of South India. [6] Sinhala is one of the official and national languages of Sri Lanka, alongside Tamil.

7. Sri Lankan English - Wikipedia

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   Teaching. Teaching English as a second language. v. t. e. Sri Lankan English (SLE) is the English language as it is used in Sri Lanka, a term dating from 1972. [1] Sri Lankan English is principally categorised as the Standard Variety and the Nonstandard Variety, which is called as "Not Pot English". The classification of SLE as a separate ...

8. Official Language Act of 1956 (Sri Lanka) - Wikipedia

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   The Official Language Act (No. 33 of 1956), commonly referred to as the Sinhala Only Act, was an act passed in the Parliament of Ceylon in 1956. [1] The act replaced English with Sinhala as the sole official language of Ceylon, with the exclusion of Tamil from the act. At the time, Sinhala (also known as Sinhalese) was the language of Ceylon's ...

9. List of Sinhala words of Dutch origin - Wikipedia

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   Sinhala words of Dutch origin came about during the period of Dutch colonial rule in Sri Lanka between 1658 and 1798. This period saw absorption of several Dutch words into the local language brought about by the interaction between Dutch colonials and the Sinhalese people, mainly in the coastal areas of the island.