How To Use Sinhalese In A Sentence
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The history of Tamil invasions against the only homeland that the Buddhist Sinhalese possess is not just the stuff of ancient history, but a living reality underpinned by latter-day Tamil terrorism.
Buddha’s Savage Peace
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The gathering participated in the prayer vigil with hymns in English, Sinhalese and Tamil.
Asian Tribune
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the Sinhalese versions of the Ramayana
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Eelam, which is locked in a bloody war with the Sinhalese government over an independent Tamil state.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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For another Sinhalese story of how a man and his wife "bluffed
Filipino Popular Tales
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Thus it is probably Dhivehi, which Wikipedia tells us is: an Indo-Aryan language closely related to the Sinhalese language of Sri Lanka.
7 posts from November 2009
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These are Sinhalese but also Tamils, Burghers and Muslims.
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The 38-year-old, who previously converted to Islam [and moved from Sri Lanka to Bahrain], was detained on March 20 after writing two books in Sinhalese, allegedly offensive to Lord Buddha.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Prosecution for Insulting Religion — This Time, Buddhism
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The supernatural beings of the Sinhalese could be manipulated by humans soas to influence events, but their ethical position was ambiguous.
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President Mahinda Rajapaksa, who was re-elected last month by a wide margin, largely because of support from the country's Sinhalese majority, said Tamil leaders should not "misguide" people or harbour political ambitions based on ethnicity.
Zee News : India National
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Canon is partly due to the desire of the Sinhalese to lose nothing of the sacred word imparted to them by missionaries from a foreign country, for repetition to this extent is not characteristic of Indian compositions.
Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1
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Sinhalese is the traditional language of Buddhism; therefore Sinhalese alone must be recognized as the national language.
Threatened Christendom
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Invasions from southern India, combined with internecine strife, pushed Sinhalese kingdoms southward.
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As a result, like the Serbs in the former Yugoslavia, the Jews in Israel, and the Shiites in Iran, the Sinhalese are a demographic majority with a dangerous minority complex of persecution.
Buddha’s Savage Peace
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They are also the only places where Sinhalese, Tamils and Burghers meet, for after 1983 the three groups, like many other warring groups from other parts of the world, go their separate ways.
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President Mahinda Rajapaksa, who was re-elected last month by a wide margin, largely because of support from the country's Sinhalese majority, said Tamil leaders should not "misguide" people or harbour political ambitions based on ethnicity or region.
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The girls are singing a sad lament in Sinhalese: ‘Old sea waves, you have kidnapped us ’.
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In Sri Lanka the distinction between Tamils and Sinhalese is barely noticeable to the visitor.
The Perils of Partition
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The centre of Sinhalese and Buddhist civilization gradually shifted south-westwards, and political power was divided between a number of kingdoms.
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The school of Buddhism now professed in Ceylon, Burma and Siam is often called Sinhalese and (provided it is not implied that its doctrines originated in Ceylon) the epithet is correct.
Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3
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The resounding victory consolidates the Tamil National Alliance's status as an authentic representative of ethnic Tamils in negotiations with Rajapaksa's ethnic majority Sinhalese-controlled government in sharing political power and postwar rehabilitation.
Ex-rebel proxies sweep Sri Lanka local elections
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Our lyrics are written in English, Sinhalese and Sanskrit which differ according to different historical themes we have chosen.
Metal Underground .com
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This belief gained wide currency among Sinhalese of all social strata in the twentieth century.
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I went to school with Tamils, Sinhalese and members of the Burgher community.
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The traditional clothing of the Sinhalese is the sarama, a type of sarong (a wrapped garment).
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It wasn't uncommon to find both Tamils and Sinhalese sharing "hoppers" -- a native delicacy -- with Tiruchelvam.
Mourning A Man Of Peace
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Sri Lankan forces fighting the Sinhalese rebels
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Sinhalese law was unwritten, and there was great flexibility both in its application and in judicial procedure.
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Sinhalese rebels fighting the Tamils
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The Sinhalese and Tamils are in the majority, and there are also Muslims, aboriginal Veddahs, Malaysians and Burghers (people of mixed European and Sri Lankan heritage).
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Whereas the governments of the Senanayake and Bandaranaike family dynasties hailed from the relatively moderate Colombo-centric elite, the Rajapaksas are more representative of the somewhat xenophobic, semi-literate, and collectivist rural part of the Sinhalese Buddhist population.
Buddha’s Savage Peace
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They published and spread distorted stories from the beginning, tarnishing the image of Sri Lankan Sinhalese community saying they ill-treat Tamil people, which is a big fat lie.
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