Languages of Sri Lanka Languages of Sri Lanka Pāli ( Devanagari पालि) is a Middle Indo-Aryan dialect or prakrit. It is most famous as the language in which the scriptures of Theravada Buddhism (also known as the Pāli Canon or in Pāli the Tipitaka) were written down in Sri Lanka in the 1st century BCE. Pāli has been written in a variety of scripts, from Brahmi, Devanagari and other Indic scripts through to a romanised (western) form devised by T. W. Rhys Davids of the Pali Text Society. ...more on Wikipedia about "Pāli"
Sinhala (also Sinhalese, formerly Singhalese) is the language spoken by the Sinhalese, the largest ethnic group of Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon). It belongs to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European family of languages. The language of the Maldives, Dhivehi has some similarities with Sinhala. There are about 13 million native speakers of Sinhala. ...more on Wikipedia about "Sinhala"
Sri Lanka Indo-Portuguese or Sri Lanka Portuguese Creole is a language spoken in Sri Lanka. It is a creole language based on Tamil with a lexicon substantially taken from Portuguese. The language was a lingua franca in the island for 350 years (From 16th to mid-19th century). ...more on Wikipedia about "Sri Lanka Indo-Portuguese language"
Sri Lankan English (SLE) is the English language as spoken in Sri Lanka. ...more on Wikipedia about "Sri Lankan English"
Tamil (தமிழ் ) is a classical language and one of the major languages belonging to the Dravidian language family. Spoken predominantly by Tamils in South India, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, and Singapore, it has smaller communities of speakers in many other countries. As of 1996, it was the eighteenth most spoken language, with over 74 million speakers worldwide. ...more on Wikipedia about "Tamil language"
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