Sinhala

How To Use Sinhala In A Sentence

• Besides the majority Sinhala Buddhists, the nation also includes Sri Lankan Tamils, Tamils of recent Indian origin, Muslims, and Burghers, descendants of intermarriages between Sri Lankans and Europeans.
• Indeed, I suspect that I am one of the few people remaining to routinely address him by his first name and use the familiar Sinhala address - oya - when talking to him.
• The Sinhala daily, Lankadeepa, published a 25 column-inch story based on an interview with Wije Dias.
• Their own sense of ethnic distinctiveness is identified through religion — Theravada Buddhism — and language — Sinhala. Buddha’s Savage Peace
• Sinhala people assert that Sri Lanka belongs exclusively to the Sinhala Buddhists.
• The most right-wing monks have treated the war as a religious crusade to ensure the unchallenged supremacy of Buddhism and the ‘Sinhala nation.’
• The Sinhala supremacist organisation has declared that it will not allow such rallies.
• One of the new government's first steps was to turn the lower house of parliament into a constituent assembly in order to adopt a new constitution strongly orientated in favour of Buddhism, and the Sinhala language.
• The kindred (pavula, in Sinhala) of an individual often comprise the group with whom it is possible to eat or marry.
• The mainly Sinhala province also has a large population of Indian-origin Tamils working in plantations. In that council, the UPFA won more than two-thirds of the seats, with 72% percent of the vote.