How To Use Sinhala In A Sentence
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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.
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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.
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The Sinhala daily, Lankadeepa, published a 25 column-inch story based on an interview with Wije Dias.
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Their own sense of ethnic distinctiveness is identified through religion — Theravada Buddhism — and language — Sinhala.
Buddha’s Savage Peace
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Sinhala people assert that Sri Lanka belongs exclusively to the Sinhala Buddhists.
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The most right-wing monks have treated the war as a religious crusade to ensure the unchallenged supremacy of Buddhism and the ‘Sinhala nation.’
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The Sinhala supremacist organisation has declared that it will not allow such rallies.
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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.
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The kindred (pavula, in Sinhala) of an individual often comprise the group with whom it is possible to eat or marry.
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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.
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For the last two centuries, since the Tamils started to immigrate to sri Lanka with its Sinhala majority, the two ethnic groups have been in conflict.
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This was the first time a Sinhala director directed a Tamil language film.
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Nigardu_, an ancient Sanskrit Catalogue of Plants, the true cinnamon is spoken of as _Sinhalam_, a word which signifies "belonging to Ceylon" to distinguish it from cassia, which is found in Hindustan.
Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 (of 2)
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Together with Sinhala, Dhivehi represents a special subgroup within the Modern Indo-Aryan languages which is called Insular Indo-Aryan.
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The SEP is the only party offering a program of struggle to unite working people - Sinhala, Tamil, Muslim and Burgher, young and old, men and women - to fight for their social needs and democratic aspirations.
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Sinhala people assert that Sri Lanka belongs exclusively to the Sinhala Buddhists.
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Then we would have reached agreement between all democratic political parties and groups representing all our peoples - the Sinhala, Tamil, Muslim, Malay, and Burgher citizens of Sri Lanka.
