Sinhala is not only a language of the Sinhalese but also the story of the people of this land. Other than Bengali and Gujarati, today it is sprinkled with words from Tamil, Arabic, Portuguese ...

The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) has added several uniquely Sri Lankan words to its June 2025 update, OED.com has said.Among the new entries is “asweddumise”, meaning to prepare land for paddy ...

COLOMBO: A comprehensive 3,625-page English-Sinhalese dictionary-cum-thesaurus-cum-encyclopedia was printed at Kochi in Kerala recently. It has five lakh words, ...

SBS Sinhala Sports Journalist Rangana Seneviratne is bringing you the latest information on the sports arenas in Australia and Sri Lanka. ... Ease into the English language and Australian culture.

Some Sanskrit words went into Sinhala language through the Tamil Language. The first grammar of the Sinhalese the “Sidath Sangarawa” was written in the 13th Century AD just eight centuries ago.

Sri Lankan short film directed by Ilango Ram has won the 1st runner up award at the Green bay film festival in USA. SBS Sinhalese interviewed Ilango Ram regarding his achievement.

Sinhala-English is a language with rules of its own : Book review ... as "the most neutral language in Sri Lanka" and that it has "infiltrated into code mixing in the form of lone words." Another ...

Bucket (baaldhyia in Sinhala) was a shibboleth during these times, an innocuous word that, if pronounced with a Tamil accent, would decide whether its speaker was subject to attack, or worse, death.

We are excited to announce that we are broadening our language capabilities to include Maithili, Konkani, Sindhi, and Sinhala. We celebrate and support India’s diversity of language and culture with ...

During his speech on the occasion mentioned, presumably as an invited guest, the retired military officer was reported to have said, ‘වන අලින් ගම වදින විට බල්ලන් බිරුවාට අලියා කලබල නොවී වගාව කා දමන බව ...