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Sinhala is a Unicode block containing characters for the Sinhala and Pali languages of Sri Lanka, and is also used for writing Sanskrit in Sri Lanka. The Sinhala allocation is loosely based on the ISCII standard, except that Sinhala contains extra prenasalized consonant letters, leading to inconsistencies with other ISCII-Unicode script allocations.
The Sinhala script (Sinhala: සිංහල අක්ෂර මාලාව, romanized: Siṁhala Akṣara Mālāva), also known as Sinhalese script, is a writing system used by the Sinhalese people and most Sri Lankans in Sri Lanka and elsewhere to write the Sinhala language as well as the liturgical languages Pali and Sanskrit. [3]
The Tamil language is spoken by native Sri Lankan Tamils and is also spoken by Indian Tamils of Sri Lanka and by most Sri Lankan Moors. Tamil speakers number around 4.8 million (29% of the population), making it the second largest language in Sri Lanka. There are more than 40,000 speakers of the Sri Lankan Malay language.
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Several other symbols do not have official acknowledgment as national symbols but are considered national symbols at the local level. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The Constitution of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka sets out the national flag , the national anthem , the national day and the national language. [ 3 ]
The cross is considered as a variation of the St Thomas Cross [nb 1] due to its similar shape and possible links between the early Christian community in South India and Sri Lanka. The Anuradhapura cross however has unique features when compared to other crosses. [ 2 ]
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is Sri Lanka's country code. xx: represents the area code. (i.e. omitting the leading 0 used when calling inside Sri Lanka). y: represents the operator code. zzzzzz: represents the main telephone number of six digits.