"A beautiful expression we have in Italian is 'arrangiati.' There do exist turns of phrases in English that mean more or less ...

In Sinhala language studies, Prof. Disanayaka’s primary focus was the documentation of folk Sinhala usage. As a scholar, he was deeply fascinated by the beauty and romance of the Sinhala village and ...

The Official Language Act no 33 of 1956 said that the Sinhala language ‘shall be the one official language of Ceylon.’ The Act was to come into effect on 1st January 1964. Sinhala had not been used as ...

In 1935, the Shah of Persia asked foreign governments to cease using the word Persia and switch to Iran, however the language largely spoken in the country is known as Persian.

Sigiri.Ai founded by Lasitha Gunasinghe has introduced a ground-breaking development for Sri Lanka’s digital landscape: the first-ever Sinhala and native Tamil Large Language Models (LLMs). This ...

Appoints Jeevan Gnanam as Managing Director Sigiri.Ai founded by Lasitha Gunasinghe has introduced a groundbreaking development for Sri Lanka’s digital landscape: the first-ever Sinhala and native ...

Parallel datasets are vital for performing and evaluating any kind of multilingual task. However, in the cases where one of the considered language pairs is a low-resource language, the existing ...

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.

ඞ is rarely used in today’s Sinhala language. Nowadays, it’s mainly used to represent a crewmate character in the game Among Us. When you encounter ඞ in today’s writings, it’s usually a typing mistake ...

The function is available on the Microsoft Translator app, edge browser, Office 365, Bing Translator, and through the Azure Cognitive Services Translator API for businesses and developers. Users can ...