An Overview of Sri Lanka's Multilingual Heritage
Prof. Sandagomi Coperhewa This article is based on the speech about “ An Overview of Sri Lanka's Multilingual Heritage ” was delivered by Prof. Sandagomi Coperhewa who is a professor of University of Colombo in Modern Sinhala Usage and Grammar, Sociolinguistics, Language and Communication, at the UCSC auditorium under Enhancement program for the 1st year students of UCSC undergraduate program on 12th September 2018. As I understood, this lecture was mainly based on How Sri Lanka became multicultural & multilingual &, how to live with that. Let's talk about language of Sri Lanka first, Sinhala From the origins, Sinhala is an Indu-Arya language which came from India but geographically separated from other Indu-Aryan languages. Tamil Tamil is a Dravidian language which uses mainly Tamil and Muslim population of Sri Lanka. Tamil enjoyed a 'prestige' status in Sri Lanka after 12th century. English English was the official language ...