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The Church Missionary Society undertook a new translation, known as the Cotta version, in 1833. [1]: 49 The Baptist missionaries produced their own translation, which appeared in print between 1859 and 1876. [1]: 52 To match the Revised Version of the Bible, the Sinhalese translation was revised between 1895 and 1910. [2]
The Bible is the most translated book in the world, with more translations (including an increasing number of sign languages) being produced annually.. According to Wycliffe Bible Translators, in September 2024, speakers of 3,765 languages had access to at least a book of the Bible, including 1,274 languages with a book or more, 1,726 languages with access to the New Testament in their native ...
William Tolfrey (1778 – 4 January 1817, in Colombo) was a British civil servant in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) [1] and translator of the Bible into Sinhalese. [2] The BFBS revised his translation from 1895 to 1910.
The first Sinhalese translation of the Tirukkuṟaḷ was made by Govokgada Misihamy, [2] with the assistance of S. Thambaiah, in 1961 under the title Thiruvalluvar's Kural. Mishamy considered his work an 'adaptation' rather than a translation, as he believed that no translation of a classic into a foreign language could do justice to the original.
Madura English–Sinhala Dictionary (Sinhala: මධුර ඉංග්රීසි–සිංහල ශබ්දකෝෂය) is a free electronic dictionary service developed by Madura Kulatunga.
Sinhala idioms (Sinhala: රූඩි, rūḍi) and colloquial expressions that are widely used to communicate figuratively, as with any other developed language. This page also contains a list of old and popular Sinhala proverbs , which are known as prastā piruḷu ( ප්රස්තා පිරුළු ) in Sinhala.
The New English Translation, like the New International Version, New Jerusalem Bible and the New American Bible, is a completely new translation of the Bible, not an update or revision of an older one (such as the New Revised Standard Version of 1989, which is a revision of the Revised Standard Version of 1946/71, itself a revision of the ...
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 ...