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  2. Sinhala language - Wikipedia

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    Sinhala ( Siṃhala) is a Sanskrit term; the corresponding Middle Indo-Aryan ( Eḷu) word is Sīhala . The name is a derivative of siṃha, the Sanskrit word for 'lion'. [ 12] The name is sometimes glossed as 'abode of lions', and attributed to a supposed former abundance of lions on the island.

  3. Google Translate - Wikipedia

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    Google Translate is a web-based free-to-use translation service developed by Google in April 2006. [11] It translates multiple forms of texts and media such as words, phrases and webpages. Originally, Google Translate was released as a statistical machine translation (SMT) service. [11] The input text had to be translated into English first ...

  4. List of Sinhala words of English origin - Wikipedia

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    Exception from the standard are the romanization of Sinhala long "ä" ([æː]) as "ää", and the non-marking of prenasalized stops. Sinhala words of English origin mainly came about during the period of British colonial rule in Sri Lanka. This period saw absorption of several English words into the local language brought about by the ...

  5. Madura English–Sinhala Dictionary - Wikipedia

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    Madura English–Sinhala Dictionary ( Sinhala: මධුර ඉංග්‍රීසි–සිංහල ශබ්දකෝෂය) is a free electronic dictionary service developed by Madura Kulatunga. [1] [2] It is available as computer software, an online website and an android app. [3] [4] The dictionary contains over 230,000 definitions ...

  6. A study of Sinhalizations in Sinhala-English Mixed Discourse

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    colloquial Sinhala. Many sub-varieties of spoken Sinhala can be categorized under the colloquial variety of Sinhala. For easy reference, Table 2 from Senaratne (2009: 38) presents a general description of the three groups of Sinhala-English bilingual speakers relevant to this study. Table 2. Categorization of Bilingual speakers, from Senaratne ...

  7. Languages of Sri Lanka - Wikipedia

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    English, Sinhala and Tamil languages on a war grave memorial plate in Kandy. (click to see full view of memorial plate) English in Sri Lanka is fluently spoken by approximately 23.8% [3] of the population, and widely used for official and commercial purposes. It is the native language of approximately 74,000 people, mainly in urban areas.

  8. Sri Lankan English - Wikipedia

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    Sri Lankan English ( SLE) is the English language as it is used in Sri Lanka, a term dating from 1972. [1] Sri Lankan English is principally categorised as the Standard Variety and the Nonstandard Variety, which is called as "Not Pot English". The classification of SLE as a separate dialect of English is controversial.

  9. DOCUMENT RESUME ED 192 571 FL 011 700

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    to be taken under a Sinhala-speaking instructor. The present module is intended as a referelice manual an Sinhala structures which will supplement and expand on the brief notes that appear in Module 2 (see related documents). After a brief explanation of the Sinhala sound system, the grammatical system is described under the following main