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	Sinhala - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It belongs to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indoeuropean languages.
		The closest relative of Sinhala is the language of the Maldives, Dhivehi.
		Geiger, Wilhelm: A Grammar of the Sinhalese Language, Colombo 1938.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sinhala_language (1028 words)

	Sinhala Only Act - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The law mandated Sinhala (the language spoken by Sinhalese people who compromise 74% of the Sri Lankas' population and by a majority of Tamil and Muslim people), as the sole official language of Sri Lanka.
		Until the passage of the Free Education Bill in 1944, education in the English language was the preserve of the subaltern elite and the ordinary people had little knowledge of it.
		By most Tamils the "Sinhala Only Act" was and is seen as a watershed and the foundation of the current civil war in the country.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sinhala_Only_Act (756 words)

	Sinhala Language
		These languages share common characteristics and the Indo-Aryan language which is closest to Sinhala is “Divehi” the language of the Maldive Islands, which is written in a script called “Tana”.
		The Tamil language, which belongs to the Dravidian group has influenced the structure and vocabulary of Sinhalese to such an extent that some scholars were erroneously led to believe that Sinhalese belonged to the Dravidian group of languages.
		In literary Sinhala the subject agrees with the verb in gender number and case, whereas in spoken Sinhala there is no agreement between the subject and the verb.
	members.tripod.com /~hettiarachchi/sinhala2.html (588 words)

	Evolution of the Sinhala language- virtual library-Sri Lanka
		The Sinhala language is therefore a member of the Aryan family of languages, which is a member of a still larger family of languages known as Indo-European.
		The earlier stages are provided by Pali (a Prakritic language of northern India which flourished during the 3rd and 5th centuries B. C.) and Sanskrit (the language of the Veddhas, written around 1500 B.C.).
		Sinhala has also been considerably influenced by the Portuguese, Dutch and English, the languages of the three colonial powers that came to the island in quest of conquest.
	members.tripod.com /~hettiarachchi/sinhala.html (1260 words)

	Department of Sinhala
		The language of the main classical texts of the Gampola and Kotte periods and Sinhala translations of the Bible and their influence on the writers of the 20th century will be studied in the course.
		The aim of this course is to study the language used by writers of non-fictional prose in the modern period, mainly in the 20th century.
		The Sinhala prose used in these new books and scientific and critical works including books on subjects such as history, sociology, archaeology, psychology, will be taken into consideration with a view to evaluating the expansion and development of the vocabulary, syntax and flexibility of the language.
	www.arts.pdn.ac.lk /sinhala/courses.html (2868 words)

	Sinhala (language) - Search Results - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Sinhala (language), official language of Sri Lanka, spoken by Sinhala people.
		The language is Divehi (Maldivian), an Indo-European tongue related to Sinhala.
		The official language of Sri Lanka is Sinhala, or Sinhalese, spoken by more than 70 per cent of the population as a first language.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Sinhala_(language).html (97 words)

	Language Proposals before the Select Committee
		The strategy therefore was to force the implementation of the Language provisions by constitutional authority, outside the North and the East, despite the undeclared "preference" of the officers and the public.
		The process would then legalize a Language policy that is constitutionally guaranteed with regard to scope and territorial jurisdiction that starts at declaring AGA divisions with 25% minority representation to be bi-lingual, in the hope of revising it later to 10% and finally to 0%.
		Starting with "Sinhala Only" in 1956 where Sinhala was to be the sole Official language and the language of administration throughout the country, language policies have undergone several revisions to emerge in its present form.
	hometown.aol.com /mahnel/lbima10.htm (3761 words)

	Learn Sinhala Language - Free Conversational Sinhala Lessons Online - Common Sinhala Words and Phrases (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Phrasebase drastically simplifies the language learning process by prioritizing the various components of learning and focusing your study efforts on the areas of greatest importance.
		The key is to immerse yourself in the language and use it as often as possible in order to build up your skills of speaking it and listening to it, understanding and comprehending it...
		Sinhala Language Exchange Pen-Pals - Community of people from around the world interested in teaching you their language and sharing their culture with you.
	www.phrasebase.com /learn/sinhala.php (1866 words)

	Language in India
		The Act dictated "Sinhala language shall be the one official language of Ceylon, and that if immediate implementation was impracticable, the language or languages currently in use may be continued until the necessary change is effected as early as possible before the expiry of the thirty-first of December, 1960" (Gunasekara 1996).
		Sinhala shall be used as the language of the courts situated in all the areas of Sri Lanka except those in any areas where Tamil is the language of administration.
		The claims for the pre-eminence of a language or linguistic people group based on population strength are often questioned by counter-claims based on the historical evolution of the modern nation as a single political unit.
	www.languageinindia.com /jan2002/srilanka1.html (1623 words)

	Sinhala (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Sinhala is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in Sri Lanka.
		As a descendant of Sanskrit, the language of the Mahabharatha and Ramayana, Sinhala is also related to European languages such as Greek and Latin and, by implication, a host of other languages.
		This is the national language of Sri Lanka, where is is spoken by over 13 million.
	www.flw.com /languages/sinhala.htm (79 words)

	WWW Virtual Library Sri Lanka : Sri Lanka: A Short History of Sinhala Language
		The Sinhala language came to Sri Lanka with the original migrants from North India who are traditionally considered to be the founders of the Sinhala nation.
		The languages in all these areas were variants of Indo-Aryan, not too dissimilar to each other, and it is speculated that Sinhala is an amalgam of these languages.
		Kassapa paraphrases the Pali word dpabhsya, meaning "in the language of the island", as heu basin, which means "in the helu (Sinhala) language".
	www.lankalibrary.com /books/sinhala_history.htm (1348 words)

	WWW Virtual Library - Sri Lanka - Languages, Literature, Books & Book Reviews
		The fact is that Sinhala is not only a member of the Aryan group of languages, but also of a larger linguistic group, the Indo-European family, which includes all the major languages of Europe, Iran and Southern Asia.
		Sinhala, 6000 years ago (It would seem surprising to many that the origins of the Sinhala language could be traced back to 6,000 years ago.
		A Short History of Sinhala Language (The Sinhala language came to Sri Lanka with the original migrants from North India who are traditionally considered to be the founders of the Sinhala nation.
	www.lankalibrary.com /books.html (1220 words)

	Sri Lanka Language
		The two major ones widely used are, however, Sinhala language spoken by the Sinhalese majority and Tamil language used by the Tamils.
		Language is one of the most important elements representing the national identity.
		Language issue led thus to the religio-ethno-nationalism as well as the communal riots in the country.
	www.sri-lanka-tour.com /travel-guide/language.htm (405 words)

	Sinhala : The Sri Lanka page around Singhalese (Sinhala)
		This site is more dedicated to the sinhala language than the general www.ceylon-online.com site and we will try to give you as much information about the singhalese language as possible.
		I hope you enjoy the page and the sinhala language and I am always happy to get some feedback and suggestions for improvement at info@sinhala-online.com.
		P.S.:If someone is wondering what singhalese (or sinhala) is - it is a language spoken by the majority of the inhabitants of Sri Lanka and especially the writing is really cute (go here to see the writing).
	www.sinhala-online.com (197 words)

	Language Provisions of 1978 Constitution
		Section 24 of the new Constitution enacts that the official language shall be the language of the courts throughout Sri Lanka but this is subject to the proviso that the language of the courts in the Northern and Eastern Provinces shall also be Tamil.
		The language provisions in time new Constitution are not concessions granted as a matter of generosity or wrested from time weak by a show of force.
		The language provisions reflect, above all, a strength and the willingness to enact that which is right and there may be a need for an answering strength from all sections of the people of this country to join together in the task of securing time effective implementation of that which has been enacted.
	www.tamilnation.org /saty/781004language.htm (1845 words)

	Trilingual Sinhala-Tamil-English National Web Site of Sri Lanka
		Sinhala, Tamil, and English are all official languages and are extensively spoken throughout this country of 18 million people.
		Sinhala is a member of the Indo-Aryan family of languages and its script bears close structural resemblance to Thai and Malayalam scripts.
		It is evident that the Sinhala character set consisting of vowels, semi-consonants, consonants, and consonant modifiers and the Tamil set consisting of vowels, consonants, and consonant modifiers have clear differences, mainly with respect to the size of characters.
	www.isoc.org /inet97/proceedings/E1/E1_3.HTM (2174 words)

	Online edition of Sunday Observer - Business (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		It is therefore not surprising why a nation's intellectuals should be so concerned about preserving their language for posterity, some even to the point of advocating a policy of 'linguistic purity' that seeks to purge the language of all foreign influences.
		Sinhala scholars have for instance thought it fit to adopt loans from the Sanskrit language to fill the perceived shortcomings of the Sinhala language, especially in connection with technical terminology.
		For instance take old Sinhala words like la (heart), rov (disease), detu (senior), milis (barbarian) and hingu (speedy) which could be easily employed to replace their respective Sanskritic equivalents harda, roga, jyeshtha, mlechcha and shighra which are widely used at present, even in complex terms.
	www.sundayobserver.lk /2003/01/26/fea15.html (1161 words)

	Sinhala - Language Directory
		This is due to its exposure to other language families of the South Asian region such as Dravidian and Austronesian.
		The script used in writing Sinhalese is evolved from the ancient Brahmi script used in most Aryan languages, which was introduced to the island in the 3rd century BC.
		Sinhala became the official language of Sri Lanka in 1956.
	language-directory.50webs.com /languages/sinhala.htm (423 words)

	Sinhala alphabet, pronunciation and language
		The Sinhala alphabet, a descendent of the Brahmi script, started to appear in inscriptions during the 3rd and 2nd centuries BC.
		Sinhala or Sinhalese, an Indo-Aryan language spoken in Sri Lanka by about 12 million people.
		There are also considerable numbers of Sinhala speakers in Singapore, Thailand, Canada and the United Arab Emirates.
	www.omniglot.com /writing/sinhala.htm (227 words)

	Sinhala Language :: Home ::
		Language Overview: Sinhala Language Overview: Sinhala Various descriptive and analytic texts regarding the Sinhala language, drawn from the Rosetta 1,000 Language Archive.
		The Act dictated "Sinhala language shall be the one official language of Ceylon, and...
		The Sinhala language is therefore a member of the Aryan family of...
	www.lankalinksystems.com /sri-lanka/sinhala/sinhala-language.htm (512 words)

	Learn Sinhala
		We are the only school in Colombo offering Sinhala lessons in a classroom environment using the latest language teaching methods.
		If you are a beginner or know very little Sinhala, this course will give you the opportunity to master basic, everyday language for use at home, work, shopping, or travelling by bus and trishaw.
		The Sinhala 2 course is designed for anyone who has studied around 40-50 hours of Sinhala and/or already has a basic knowledge of spoken Sinhala.
	www.britishcouncil.org /srilanka-learning-sinhala.htm (335 words)

	Sinhala Computing Information (Penn State)
		Sinhala (Sri Lanka) is a syllabic alphabet in that it consists of consonants with vowel signs.
		Language tags are also suggested so that search engines and screen readers parse the language of a page.
		Unless a keyboard which supports Unicode is installed, you must use the Unicode chart for Sinhala and enter HTML entity codes.
	tlt.its.psu.edu /suggestions/international/bylanguage/sinhala.html (801 words)

	Online edition of Sunday Observer - Business (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The structure of the language is considered to be appropriate in determining the inter-relationship between languages.
		An important feature in Sinhala is the fact that there happens to be couplets where one word in Sinhala and the other in Sanskrit, both words having the same meaning.
		The Sinhala synonyms are not found in the Sanskrit language of Panini nor in any Prakrit language and not even in the Veda which is considered to be the earliest language in the Indo-Aryan group.
	origin.sundayobserver.lk /2001/08/19/fea21.html (1028 words)

	Ethnologue 14 report for language code:SNH
		The following is the entry for this language as it appeared in the 14th edition (2000).
		It has been superseded by the corresponding entry in the 15th edition (2005).
		There is a great difference between the literary and the colloquial language.
	www.ethnologue.com /show_language.asp?code=SNH (158 words)

	Of language, religion and nationalism
		In his welcome address, Sumith Nakandala, Sri Lanka's Deputy High Commissioner in southern India, said the aim of the lectures was to rediscover the common heritage of pluralism between India and Sri Lanka; the latest lecture was to investigate the syncretism of religions in Sri Lanka and India.
		I used the word "language" also because the Sinhala language became the rallying point for the nationalist cause in the mid-19th century itself.
		In the introduction, he said the Sinhala language should not be neglected.
	www.frontlineonnet.com /fl2212/stories/20050617003611000.htm (3358 words)

	Origin of the Sinhala language and the Sinhalese - TamilCanadian (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Prof Wijeyanayake from London (like many other Sinhala scholars) wrote in the Sunday Observer of 17 November 1996: âThe origin of the Sinhala race is in Lanka.
		Sinhala evolved through the intermingling of the Tamil, Pali and Sanskrit languages.
		Even in the 4th and 5th centuries A.D., what was to eventually become the Sinhala language had not evolved to the point where it was suitable for the compilation of important treatises like the Dipavamsa, Mahawamsa etc.
	www.tamilcanadian.com /pageview.php?ID=2011 (938 words)

	Sinhala Translation Service - English to Sinhala Translation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		You probably don't speak Sinhala yourself, so there are a few questions you'll need to consider when choosing a translation company.
		Language is a living thing it develops and changes constantly.
		To ensure our translators keep abreast of the language our Sinhala translators live in-county and translate into their mother tongue.
	www.appliedlanguage.com /languages/sinhala_translation.shtml (528 words)

	Enactment of Sinhala Only Law (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		In the eyes of the Tamils, they were discriminatory provisions adopted by the majority population which placed their language in an inferior position, (and) required them to learn the majority language...
		These are the issues that in fact we have been discussing under the form and appearance of the language issue...
		At that time, it was presumed that the acceptance of Tamil as an official language would automatically lead to the recruitment of more Tamils and that there would be no glaring ethnic imbalances.But Tamil has been an official language "only in name" as The Sunday Times put it.
	www.tamilnation.org /indictment/indict004.htm (1475 words)

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		This is the largest Sinhala language teaching school in New South Wales operating under the Sinhalese Cultural Forum is fully recognised by the NSW Department of Education.
		In 2002, a new class structure consisting of seven levels based on Sinhala competency (not age based as previously) was implemented.
		The standards of Sinhala writing, reading, and speech required for each level have been documented and will serve as the criteria for selecting students to these levels.
	www.sinhalaschool.net (358 words)

	Standardizing Sinhala for IT at LIRNEasia
		India was for a while colonised by the british, and the retention of english there as an official language, is more a case of not trying to put either of a dravidian or h[i]ndu language over the other, and so they created this foreign language as a “lingua franca”.
		The present problem is the sinhala character allocation table and its connection to the keyboard then to the OS and applications (eg word, excell or adobe illustrator etc etc)in uise.
		Romanized Sinhala is the skeleton, smartfont is the flesh.
	www.lirneasia.net /2006/05/standardizing-sinhala-for-it (12825 words)

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