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  2. Sri Lanka - Wikipedia

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    Sri Lanka, [c] historically known as Ceylon, [d] and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island country in South Asia. It lies in the Indian Ocean , southwest of the Bay of Bengal , separated from the Indian peninsula by the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait .

  3. Help:Pronunciation respelling key - Wikipedia

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    As designated in Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Pronunciation, the standard set of symbols used to show the pronunciation of English words on Wikipedia is the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). The IPA has significant advantages over this respelling system, as it can be used to accurately represent pronunciations from any language in the world ...

  4. Help:IPA - Wikipedia

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    Arabic ‏ غَالِي ‎ ghālī and Swahili ghali "expensive", Spanish suegro: Sounds rather like French [ʁ] or between [ɡ] and [h]. ⓘ Mandarin 河南 Hénán, Scottish Gaelic taigh: Like [o] but without the lips rounded, something like a cross of [ʊ] and [ʌ]. ⓘ Italian tagliatelle, Portuguese mulher: Like [l], but more [j]-like.

  5. Sigiriya - Wikipedia

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    This site may have been important in the competition between the Mahayana and Theravada Buddhist traditions in ancient Sri Lanka. In Professor Senarath Paranavithana 's book The Story of Sigiri , King Dathusena is said to have taken the advice of the Persian Nestorian Priest Maga Brahmana on building his palace on Sigirya.

  6. Name of Sri Lanka - Wikipedia

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  7. Names of Sri Lanka - Wikipedia

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    The Ramayana Lanka began to be considered as the present-day Sri Lanka between the 10th [34] and the 12th centuries CE. [3] Then from the 16th century, in opposition to colonization, the assertion that the Ramayana Lanka was the present-day Sri Lanka became part of the Sinhalese Buddhist mythology, [ 34 ] and started to be used by locals in ...

  8. Portal:Sri Lanka - Wikipedia

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    Sri Lanka has a population of approximately 22 million and is home to several cultures, languages and ethnicities. The Sinhalese people form the majority of the population, followed by the Sri Lankan Tamils, who are the largest minority group and are concentrated in northern Sri Lanka; both groups have played an

  9. 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.