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Volunteers for English in Sri Lanka (VESL) was established to provide children at rural Sri Lankan schools with the opportunity to gain from native English speakers. VESL's projects aim to encourage learning, advance confidence levels in spoken English and promote cultural understanding.
Having taken root in Sri Lanka (then Ceylon) in 1796, Sri Lankan English has gone through over two centuries of development.In terms of its socio-cultural setting, Sri Lankan English can be explored largely in terms of different stages of the country's class and racial tension, economy, social disparity, and postwar rehabilitation and reconciliation. [10]
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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.
Sri Lanka Freedom Party [18] D. S. Goonesekera: Sri Lanka Freedom Party: 28 May 1963: 25 March 1965: Minister of Labour and Social Services [18] M. H. Mohamed: United National Party: 25 March 1965: 29 May 1970: Dudley Senanayake: Minister of Labour, Employment and Housing [19] [20] M. P. de Zoysa: Sri Lanka Freedom Party: 29 May 1970: 23 July ...
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 interaction between the English and Sinhala languages.
The Sri Lankan leopard (Panthera pardus kotiya) is an endangered subspecies of leopard native to Sri Lanka. Yala National Park in the southeast protects herds of elephant, deer, and peacocks. The Wilpattu National Park in the northwest, the largest national park, preserves the habitats of many water birds such as storks, pelicans, ibis, and ...
South Asian ethnic groups - Sinhalese people Sri Lankan Tamils, Sri Lankan Moors, Sri Lankan Malays and Burgher People The native headmen system was an integral part of the administration of the island of Ceylon (now known as Sri Lanka ) under the successive European colonial powers, namely the Portuguese Empire , the Dutch East India Company ...