Sinhala, Tamil and English.
The main Unicode block for Sinhala is U+0D80-U+0DFF.
Creates a computerized digital copy Sinhala.
There was no Sinhala language before that.
Creates a computerized digital copy the Sinhala.
Sri Lanka accords official status to Sinhala and Tamil.
William Gopallawa, MBE(Sinhala: ව ල යම ග පල ලව,
Computer transcript of data Sinhala translation and subtitling Roshan Madhusanka Tissera.
The education medium is Sinhala and English medium is being introduced.
such as Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, Punjabi, Sinhala, and Tagalog.
It is a matter of pride that many of you also speak Sinhala.
As per 2016, the Sinhala language is mostly spoken by the Sinhalese people,
How heartwarming it was to see Sinhala and Tamil Witnesses sheltering one another for months
How heartwarming it was to see Sinhala and Tamil Witnesses sheltering one another for months
at a time during those difficult years!
Many Witnesses in Italy have accepted the challenge of learning difficult languages,
such as Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, Punjabi, Sinhala, and Tagalog.
A Buddhist monk asked this writer,
why the Muslims who had assimilated into the Sinhala culture were asserting their Islamic identity since the 1980s?
Anti-Muslim violence has grown in Sri Lanka over the past five years,
but the perpetrators have mainly been hardliners from the majority Sinhala Buddhist population.
As of 2010, 51 newspapers(30 Sinhala, 10 Tamil, 11 English)
are published and 34 TV stations and 52 radio stations are operated in the country.
Another important provision in the
proposed Constitution which drew severe criticism from the Sinhala hardliners was the selection of two vice- presidents from the ethnic minorities.
As per 2016, the Sinhala language is mostly spoken by the Sinhalese people,
who constitute approximately 74.9% of the national population and total about 16.6 million.
Other language services soon followed from Bush House: Tamil service in May 1941,
Bengali in November 1941, Sinhala in March 1942,
Urdu in April 1949 and the Nepali service in September 1969.
He had declared a nationwide state of emergency on 6 March and deployed the police and
military to prevent escalation of violence after clashes between majority Sinhala Buddhists and minority Muslims erupted in other areas of the central riot-hit district.
COLOMBO(IDN)- In an exceptional move, Germany has granted funds to Sri Lanka's Forum on Disarmament and Development(FDD)
for the translation of the texts of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons(NPT) and the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban-Treaty(CTBT) to the island state's official languages Sinhala and Tamil.
William Gopallawa, MBE(Sinhala: ව ල යම ග පල ලව,
Tamil: வ ல ல யம க ப பல ல வ) (17 September 1896- 31 January 1981) was the last Governor-General of Ceylon from 1962 to 1972 and became the first(non-executive) President of Sri Lanka when Ceylon declared itself a republic in 1972 and changed its name to Sri Lanka.