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| | Sinhala - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Sinhala (also Sinhalese, formerly Singhalese) is the language spoken by the Sinhalese, the largest ethnic group of Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon). | | | Many literary works in Sinhala are strongly influenced by Buddhism, and most follow the literary trends of India—e.g. | | | Stone inscriptions as well as written texts (the Mahavansha, a history of the kings of Sri Lanka going back to almost the Lord Buddha's time) attest to the long history of Sinhala spoken in Sri Lanka. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinhala
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| | Sinhala Buddhist Chauvinism |
| | Sinhala Buddhist Fundamentalism in Marxist Garb...The Gospel - According to Rohana Wijeweera and the Jathika Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP), 1986 ".. | | | Sinhala Buddhist Chauvinism and the Buddhist Clergy - Brian Senewiratne, 1988 | | | Sinhala Buddhist Fundamentalism and the Destruction of Hindu Temples in Tamil Eelam and Sri Lanka - M.Neiminathan, 2000 |
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http://www.tamilnation.org/tamileelam/fundamentalism
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| | Sinhala |
| | 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. |
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http://www.flw.com/languages/sinhala.htm
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| | Evolution of the Sinhala language- virtual library-Sri Lanka |
| | Likewise, the Sinhala duva (daughter) maybe connected to the Sanskrit duhitar, Bengali duhita, Bohemian dugte, German tochter and Persian dokhtar. | | | For example, Sinhala hatha (seven) is related not only to the Hindi sat and the Sanskrit Sapta, but also to the Persian haft, French sept, Greek hepta, and Latin septem. | | | Such old Sinhala words like dana (people), rada (king), and pungul (person) have to all, intents and purposes ceased to exist, and have been superseded by their respective Sanskrit equivalents, jana, raja and pudgala. |
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http://members.tripod.com/~hettiarachchi/sinhala.html
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| | Journal of Buddhist Ethics |
| | First, Sinhala Buddhism denotes that this form of Buddhism deals with the religious life and practices of Sinhala people. | | | Scholars identify the Theravāda form of Buddhism that grew in Sri Lanka as Sinhala Buddhism. | | | Thus, Sinhala Buddhism has two meanings--Buddhism in the Sinhala language and Buddhism practiced by the Sinhala people. |
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http://jbe.gold.ac.uk/4/deeg1.html
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| | Language in India |
| | 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. | | | Meanwhile, the ethnic and religious divide between the Sinhala majority and the Tamil minority was growing and total distrust between the communities was by now well established. | | | The 1978 constitution once again reiterated that the official language of Sri Lanka shall be Sinhala. |
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http://www.languageinindia.com/jan2002/srilanka1.html
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| | WWW Virtual Library: Sinhala, 6000 years ago |
| | Similarly, Sinhala ata 'eight' could be shown to have derived from the Sanskritic ashtau through the Prakritic attha as found in Pali. | | | Also consider the Sinhala term ginna 'fire' which has no doubt derived from the Sanskritic agni and is therefore related to such forms as the Latin ignis, Lithuanian ugnis and Slavonic ogni. | | | Then take Sinhala in a 'loins' which has derived from the Sanskritic shroni and is related to Greek klonis, Latin clunis, Old Norse hlaun and Prussian slaunis. |
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http://www.lankalibrary.com/books/sinhala3.htm
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| | Reconciliation Between the Sinhala and Tamil Diasporas |
| | It was the emergence of Sinhala Buddhist nationalism in the 1950s that triggered the formation of a Tamil identity based on a distinct Tamil identity. | | | The official installation and popular reaffirmation of a predominantly Sinhala Buddhist national identity and the concomitant peripherlization of minority ethnicities in both symbolic and material practice contributed to the development of a Tamil nationalist movement. | | | It is argued that the failure of the Sinhala diaspora to acknowledge the grievances and bitter emotions of the Tamils and the continual use of Sinhala nationalist rhetoric has alienated even the moderate Tamils. |
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http://members.fortunecity.com/shanthi/reconciliation_between_the_sinha.htm
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| | The disintegration of the compradore bourgeoisie within the UNP (symbolised by Sir John Kotelawala) gradually led to an agitation for the revival of Buddhism (2500 years of Buddhism — Buddha Jayanthi — in 1954). | | | Alongside this grew the more politico-intellectual argument that the position of Sinhala could only be safeguarded through Buddhism and vice versa. | | | An important aspect of poplar Sinhala media was that this was taken as a matter of fact. |
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http://www.tamilcanadian.com/pageview.php?ID=3381&SID=518&pr_v=yes
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| | TISAHAMY AND THE SINHALA CULTURE |
| | The Sinhala Buddhists have not forced their culture on the others who have lived in this country. | | | The Sinhala people are not just the descendants of Vijaya and the seven hundred who came with him. | | | The Sinhala people did not lose their pantheon of gods either after becoming Buddhists. |
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http://www.infolanka.com/org/kalaya/fea006.htm
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| | Trilingual Sinhala-Tamil-English National Web Site of Sri Lanka |
| | Sinhala is a member of the Indo-Aryan family of languages and its script bears close structural resemblance to Thai and Malayalam scripts. | | | The Tamil script is used to write the Tamil language of Tamil-Nadu state in India as well as minority languages in Badaga, Singapore, and part of Sri Lanka and Malaysia, which are genetically unrelated to the North Indian languages such as Hindi, Bengali, and Gujarati. | | | Sri Lanka Standard for the Sinhala Character Code for Information Interchange; Sri Lanka Standards Institute: Sri Lanka. |
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http://www.isoc.org/inet97/proceedings/E1/E1_3.HTM
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| | HIMAL SOUTH ASIAN June 2003 Perspective Swansong of unity |
| | It must be remembered that Sinhala Buddhists strongly believe that they have a duty to protect and uphold their faith in Sri Lanka. | | | Listening to the ‘national’ anthem, you could be forgiven if you believed that Sri Lanka was a mono-ethnic, Sinhala Buddhist nation-state. | | | The flag, the national anthem, the constitution wherein the status of Buddhism is enshrined – all three are inextricably entwined in a complex dynamic that has influenced polity and society since independence in 1948. |
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http://www.himalmag.com/2003/june/perspective.htm
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| | OHCHR: Sinhala () - Universal Declaration of Human Rights |
| | Sinhala or Sinhalese is the official language of Sri Lanka. | | | Sinhala descended from Sanskrit, and was brought to Sri Lanka by settlers from northern India in the 5th century B.C. The alphabet, however, with its generally rounded letters, more closely resembles those of the Dravidian languages of southern India. | | | OHCHR: Sinhala () - Universal Declaration of Human Rights |
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http://www.unhchr.ch/udhr/lang/snh.htm
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| | Department of Sinhala |
| | The formal oriental education in Pali, Sanskrit and Sinhala - the traditional classical languages of the country, began with the establishment of a University College in 1921. | | | The history of teaching Sinhala in Higher Education in Sri Lanka is closely linked with the University of Colombo. | | | Ratnasuriya became the first Professor of Sinhala in Sri Lanka. |
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http://www.cmb.ac.lk/academic/arts/sinhala/about.htm
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| | Proposal for encoding Sinhala in ISO/IEC 10646 |
| | Encoding Sinhala is also important because of the great many Buddhist scriptures and commentaries in Pali which are written in Sinhala script. | | | ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2 N1480 from the Sri Lanka Standards Institution is a proposal to register the Sri Lankan 7-bit encoding as the Sinhala encoding in ISO/IEC 10646. | | | Brahmic encoding should have wide-ranging benefits to the Theravada Buddhist community in Sri Lanka, as regards interchange of texts in the Pali language to other scripts, such as Burmese. |
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http://www.evertype.com/standards/si/si.html
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| | Mapping Sinhala between ISO 10646 and SLS 1134 |
| | It is important to observe that letters in Elu [Sinhala] words are generally written separately, while the rule is reversed in Pali and Sanskrit. | | | Further information from SLSI and other Sri Lankan experts on the sorting of texts with both Sinhala and Pali or Sanskrit words (vis à vis the conjuncts discussed in this paper and with reference to clause 1 note 2 of SLS 1134) will be gratefully received. | | | It needs to be said once again that the Sri Lankan requirement for sorting Sinhala correctly has been understood. |
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http://www.evertype.com/standards/si/iso10646-to-sls1134.html
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| | Sri Lanka WORLD:: NE Sinhala group attacks Govt. |
| | Patriotism is not Sinhala racism against the innocent Tamils in the North and East. | | | How long can the Sinhala people take this onslaught and when they find themselves being attacked by the LTTE and the government which is supposed to protect them, goes pleading behind the tigers. | | | If we want to keep Sri Lanka undivided, we need to protect the majority innocent Tamils from the LTTE as well as the Sinhala racists. |
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http://www.lankanewspapers.com/news/2006/1/5279.html
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| | Enactment of Sinhala Only Law |
| | In the Sri Lankan school system, Sinhalas learn through the Sinhala medium, and Tamils through the Tamil medium. | | | confer on persons or any community or religion any privilege or advantage which is not conferred on persons of other communities or religions.' Despite this constitutional provision the Official Language Act was adopted in 1956 providing that 'Sinhala Only' shall be the official language... | | | "Almost the first act (of the newly elected Bandaranaike Government) has been the passing of the 'Sinhala Only' Bill against the unanimous opposition of the entire Tamil people who wanted a place of honour for their own language. |
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http://www.tamilnation.org/indictment/indict004.htm
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| | ICRC for Sinhala Victims of War |
| | In 1996, soon after the occupation of Jaffna by the Sinhala forces, medicine, infant food and (and also blood) were collected in Tamil Nadu by the Indian Red Cross to be sent to the suffering Tamils in Jaffna through the ICRC. | | | In this context the contributors, and the beneficiary Sinhala peasants, must take note of one thing – the suffering imposed on the Tamils by the embargo on food and medicine in Tamil areas of Sri Lanka. | | | In Sri Lanka, President Chandrika, the accredited Sinhala deity of war, who is also the Minister of Finance, is pumping huge amounts of money daily into a no-win war, only for |
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http://www.sangam.org/ANALYSIS/ICRC_8_25_01.htm
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| | Sinhala : The Sri Lanka page around Singhalese (Sinhala) |
| | 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). | | | Sinhala : The Sri Lanka page around Singhalese (Sinhala) | | | Additionally to the original site at www.ceylon-online.com I improved the rendering of the sinhala signs to make them nicer looking and try to give more info than on most other sites (and there are not many out there). |
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http://www.sinhala-online.com
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| | Sinhala Support in GNU/Linux HOWTO |
| | Sinhala is the main language of Sri Lanka. | | | Scroll down the list till you find “Sri Lanka&; and then highlight it by clicking on it. | | | The Sinhala layout is the default in the Sri Lanka layouts file, so you do NOT need to click the expand triangle icon. |
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http://www.nongnu.org/sinhala/doc/howto/sinhala-howto.html
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| | Ancient Scripts: Sinhala |
| | Sinhala has been a distinctive script used to write the Sinhalese language spoken in Sri Lanka. | | | Like other South Asian scripts, a Sinhala letter has an inherent vowel of /a/. | | | Sinhala is a most closely related to the Grantha script, but also takes some elements from the Kadamba script as well. |
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http://www.ancientscripts.com/sinhala.html
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| | Sinhala - Test for Unicode support in Web browsers |
| | The Sinhala script is used for the Sinhala language (also known as Sinhalese), which belongs to the Indo-Aryan group and is used by the majority of the people of Sri Lanka. | | | Created 4th October 1999 Last updated 21st October 2005 | | | The Sinhala range was introduced with version 3.0 of the Unicode Standard. |
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http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/sinhala.html
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| | Sinhala: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic |
| | Sinhala and Tamil were constitutionally recognised as the official languages of Sri Lanka in 1956. | | | The sinhala alphabet is used to write the sinhala language.... | | | [For more, click on this link]'s time) suggest that Sinhala is a very old language. |
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http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/encyclopedia/s/si/sinhala.htm
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| | Ethnologue report for language code:sin |
| | All parts of Sri Lanka except some districts in the north, east, and center. | | | Ethnologue > Web version > Country index > Asia > Sri Lanka > Sinhala | | | The Rodiya dialect is spoken by low caste Rodiya people. |
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http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=sin
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| | Sinhala Chaacter allocation Table |
| | This web site is dedicated to raising awareness of the pressing need for Sinhala and Tamil to develop in a technologically literate world. | | | Why we need complete Sinhala and Tamil Characters | | | This is a feature article about Tsunami written for |
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http://www.akuru.org
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| | Buddhist Channel Books |
| | Colombo, Sri Lanka - A Book entitled ' The Buddha Sasana Commission and the Duties and Responsibilities of Buddhist Organisations' (in Sinhala) published by the German Dharmaduta Society was launched on April 11, 2005 at a public meeting here in Colombo. |
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http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?books
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| | Sinhala Computing Information (Penn State) |
| | Sinhala (Sri Lanka) is a syllabic alphabet in that it consists of consonants with vowel signs. | | | Note that the correct Unicode font must be installed in order for the codes to work. | | | Therefore many Sinhala sites may offer custom fonts or be written in the Latin alphabet. |
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http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/international/bylanguage/sinhala.html
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| | Sinhala Language |
| | Sinhalese has 14 vowels sounds, seven of them are short and the other seven are long. | | | ‘Divehi’ is considered as an offshoot or a sister language of Sinhala. | | | The Sinhala script is phonetic, in other words, everything that is written down is pronounced the way it is written. |
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http://members.tripod.com/~hettiarachchi/sinhala2.html
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| | Sinhala Lyrics From Sri Lanka |
| | Lonely Planet Sinhala Phrasebook (Sri Lanka Phrasebook, 2nd Ed) | | | Sinhala Chat / Colombo Chat / Mix Chat / |
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http://www.mycities.net/sinhalalyrics
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| | Welcome to Sinhala Jukebox |
| | We wish to acknowledge the following people for their contributions to the site. | | | At Sinhala Jukebox you can listen to samples of thousands of Sri Lankan Music Tracks encoded in RealAudio format. | | | Right click HERE to download and install 'Kandy New' Sinhala Font to see the Sinhala Lettering in our pages [for Windows PCs only]. |
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http://www.sinhalajukebox.org
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| | SinhalaNET.org - Sinhala Community Development Foundation, A charitable non-profit foundation dedicated to the ... |
| | SinhalaNET.org - Sinhala Community Development Foundation, A charitable non-profit foundation dedicated to the advancement of the Sinhala Community | | | poverty alleviation assistance to members of the Sinhala Community in the United States, Sri Lanka and in other countries. | | | The Sinhala Community Development Foundation is a charitable nonprofit organization formed to provide humanitarian assistance and promote the advancement of the Sinhala Community worldwide. |
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http://www.sinhalanet.org
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| | Sinhala Software Solutions |
| | MADHURA is the market leader for Sinhala software in Sri Lanka. | | | MADHURA also offers you dictionary and translator software with contains over 230,000 definitions helps you to find the exact meaning of any English and Sinhala word including technical terms. | | | MADHURA was developed by Chandana Madhura Kulathunga and MADHURA continues commitment to popularize local language computing has effectively removed the psychological barrier between computer and local community. |
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http://www.djrazor.8m.com/notepad
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| | SINHALAYA WORLDWIDE - THE TRUE SRI LANKAN WEB FOR NEWS, CHAT, EDUCATION, FRIENDS & MUSIC. |
| | [Set Your Homepage As sinhalaya, sinhala, srilanka, sri lanka, sri lankan chat, srilankan chat, SRI LANKAN CHAT, LANKA CHAT, ASIA CHAT, SINHALESE, WEB HOSTING colombo, srilankan news | | | sri, lanka, music, sinhala, chat, news, lankan, education, musical, history, radio, sinhalaya, nation, breaking, sinhalachat, | | | Ways to Say " I Love You " |
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http://www.sinhalaya.com
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| | Sinhala script - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The Sinhala alphabet is quite similar to other Indic alphabets, as all of them appear to be offshoots of the Sanskrit alphabet. | | | The Sinhala script is used to write the Sinhala language. | | | However, Sinhala is unique among Indic in certain respects: It is the only Indic that has a specific letter for the æ sound, the sound of 'a' in bat. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinhala_script
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| | Thibus Sinhala / English Word Transaltor |
| | Find Sinhala meaning of any English word and vise versa. | | | As you know that most of English and Sinhala words has got more than one meaning. | | | You can find the exact Sinhala meaning of any English Word and the eaxct English meaning of any Sinhala Word. |
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http://www.scienceland.lk/Thibus_wordTranslator.htm
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| | Antenna - Sinhala gossip |
| | As the name suggests Antenna receives information, from various Sri Lankan sources, which is written in Sinhala giving its true flavour, both informative and/or satirical. | | | Have you seen your other Sinhala page, Sandun Uyana ?. | | | Antenna is the first Sinhala Webpage created exclusively by LankaWeb team from London. |
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http://www.lankaweb.com/news/antenna
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| | Cornell Summer Session : : Intensive Sinhala language program |
| | This program provides a six-week, six-credit intensive introduction to one of Sri Lanka's two official languages, used by the island's majority population and central to scholarly and applied projects in Sri Lanka. | | | This lays the foundation for later study of literary Sinhala. | | | Spoken (colloquial) language skills are emphasized during the program, which also introduces the writing system and colloquial reading materials. |
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http://www.sce.cornell.edu/ss/courses/on/special/asian_studies_sinhala.php
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| | LankaLibrary: Archaeological eminence of the Ramba Vihara |
| | The Ramba Vihara was the temple of the Maha Nagakula city where a large number of artifacts have been found, leading to research studies on the new Southern Cultural Triangle encompassing Tissamaharama, Moneragala and Hambantota. | | | Mendis Rohanadheera speaks to Daily News Heritage, spelling out the historical and archaeological significance of the Ramba Vihara and the proposed explorations surrounding that area aimed at finding the role of Maha Nagakula as the Southern capital during medieval times - 11th and 12th Centuries AD, a landmark in the contemporary history of Sri Lanka. | | | Here, retired Senior Professor of History and Archaeology of the Sri Jayawardenapura University, Editor of the Sinhala Encyclopedia and Coordinating Director of the Ruhunu Cultural Triangle Prof. |
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http://www.lankalibrary.com/heritage/temples/ramba.htm
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| | MADHURA Sinhala Keyboard |
| | You can type Sinhala words easily with using phonetically basis MADHURA Sinhala Keyboard. | | | Sinhala characters are located in English keys according to the phonetic of each character. | | | You can type any kind of English and Sinhala word with using MADHURA Sinhala Fonts. |
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http://www.djrazor.8m.com/help
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| | Kapruka - Free Sinhala Email and Sinhala Language tools |
| | This Sinhala email system was written and implemented by the two founders of Kapruka, Dulith Herath and Sugath Perera. | | | The main concepts used here has a Patent in Sri Lanka, and pending patents in United States and Australia by Dulith Herath. | | | This is the very first time a Totally font independent Sinhala web-based email system was introduced on the Internet. |
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http://www.lanka.info/smail/mailClient/clientFrontPage.html
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| | Introducing Sinhala Linux - LinuxQuestions.org |
| | Sinhala Linux, based on Knoppix, will be the first operating system in the world to include the sinhala language. | | | Recently Microsoft setup a base in Sri Lanka and they told us that they would add the Sinhala Language to the next version of windows. | | | What's even better is the fact that we beat Microsoft to it. |
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http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=&threadid=237904&hi
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| | Welcome to Let's Speak Sinhala |
| | This is, as far as I know, the only site of its kind on the Internet helping people learn spoken Sinhala. | | | English is widely spoken in Sri Lanka, so if you visit Colombo and then stay in a beach resort hotel you will probably never need to speak Sinhala. | | | People will be thrilled by your attempts to communicate in Sinhala and you are likely to have a far richer experience than if you stick to the main cities and beach areas. |
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http://www.speaksinhala.com
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| | The Sinhala Language Kit for OS X from XenoType Technologies |
| | For those of you studying Pali, our kit will also allow you to view and create Pali language texts in the Sinhalese script. | | | Although Unicode is not new, only recently has it become such a visible part of computing, especially where foreign scripts are concerned. | | | And, while many applications recognize Unicode text, only a small percentage of them currently know how to display complex scripts like Sinhala properly. |
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http://www.xenotypetech.com/sinhala_macosx.html
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| | Sri Lanka Entertainment Web ::: MALKOHA.COM |
| | Inside Pages of this Malkoha are in Sinhala. | | | You can find Sinhala songs from Sri Lankan Folk Songs and Classics to the Latest Sinhala POP / R andB tracks with their Lyrics and Video. | | | This site contains music in Real Audio and Mp3 format. |
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http://www.malkoha.com
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| | [sinhala] [Fwd: Sinhala Word List version 0.1] |
| | We were able to release the 0.1 version of the Sinhala Short Word List. | | | Re: [sinhala] Drop Wijesekara keyboard and go phonetic fullthrottle?Lessons from TamilNet '99 International Conference. | | | Please be kind enough to send your comments and suggestions on this proposed words |
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http://www.lklug.pdn.ac.lk/lurker/message/20050323.122735.3ed1798a.en.html
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| | Language Browser: Sinhala |
| | This page contains a list of interesting reports based around the 100 titles in the IMDb with Sinhala dialogue. | | | The form below allows you to search the database for titles with Sinhala dialogue only. | | | The A-Z index enables you to browse the titles alphabetically. |
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http://uk.imdb.com/Sections/Languages/Sinhala
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