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The Government of Sri Lanka (GoSL) (Sinhala: ශ්රී ලංකා රජය, romanized: Śrī Laṅkā Rajaya; Tamil: இலங்கை அரசாங்கம், romanized: Ilaṇkai Aracāṅkam) is a Semi-presidential republic determined by the Sri Lankan Constitution.
[4] [1] It is also the first language of about 2 million other Sri Lankans, as of 2001. [5] It is written in the Sinhala script, a Brahmic script closely related to the Grantha script of South India. [6] The language has two main varieties, written and spoken, and is a notable example of the linguistic phenomenon known as diglossia. [7]
The Sinhala script (Sinhala: සිංහල අක්ෂර මාලාව, romanized: Siṁhala Akṣara Mālāwa), 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]
British state papers released in the 1950s show that the Marxist movement had a very negative impact on the policy makers at the Colonial office. [ 44 ] The Soulbury Commission was the most important result of the agitation for constitutional reform in the 1930s.
Tamil speakers, 1961. Tamil settlement of Sri Lanka refers to the settlement of Tamils, or other Dravidian peoples, from Southern India to Sri Lanka. [1] Due to Sri Lanka's close proximity to Southern India, Dravidian influence on Sri Lanka has been very active since the early Iron Age or megalithic period.
The origins of the early Sinhalese kings are the settlement of North Indian Indo-Aryan immigrants to the island of Sri Lanka.Sri Lankan historian Senarath Paranavithana suggests, and according to the story in the Divyavadana, the immigrants were probably not led by a scion of a royal house in India, as told in the romantic legend, but rather may have been groups of adventurous and pioneering ...
The Sri Lanka Tamils, who live predominantly in the north and east of the island, form the largest minority group at 11.1% (according to the 2012 census) of the population. [ 27 ] The Moors , descendants of Arab + Indian traders and native Sri Lankan Tamils, form the third largest ethnic group at 9.3% of the population. [ 27 ]