When I raise this question, one may wonder why I raise this question 64 years after Sinhala was made the Official Language of Sri Lanka by the Official Languages Act, No. 33 of 1956. The people in the ...

When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness -- I am nothing -- Virginia Woolf in The Waves. Supposedly the language spoken by nearly 16 million Sri Lankans, Sinhala ...

Unknown to the media and most in Sri Lanka the Sinhala language has won international recognition. More precisely, it is the Sinhala script rather than the language itself that has been named as one ...

I refer to the two articles of Kalyananda Tiranagama, Executive Director, Lawyers for Human Rights and Development, under the titles “Is Sinhala the Official Language of Sri Lanka” and “How Premadasa ...

A representative from Perth Sinhala school teachers, Mr Senaka De Silva and two students, Ravija Balasuriya and Kishani Wijesinghe joined SBS Sinhalese program to talk about their language school and ...

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