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The Indic language spoken by the people of Sri Lanka
Answer for the clue "The Indic language spoken by the people of Sri Lanka ", 9 letters:
sinhalese
Alternative clues for the word sinhalese
Word definitions for sinhalese in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also Singhalese , "pertaining to Sri Lanka," 1797, from Sanskrit Sinhala "Sri Lanka, Ceylon," from simhala- , literally "of lions," from simhah "lion." As the name of a language spoken there, it is attested from 1801.
Usage examples of sinhalese.
Removing the families of the convicts, the Sri Lankan army surrounded the farm with barbed wire and garrisoned soldiers there to protect the Sinhalese felons.
United States government and prepared for the mass distribution of the photos and physical descriptions: rephotographing the full-face identification cards and translating the English to Sinhalese, the CIB technicians printed a thousand cards with the photos on one side, the names and descriptions of the Americans on the other.
The officers and non-commissioned officers were all Dutch, but the musketeers were a mixture of native troops, Malaccans from Malaysia, Hottentots recruited from the tribes of the Cape, and Sinhalese and Tamils from the Company's possessions in Ceylon.