1. The official and national language is Sinhala (74%).

2. Until quite recently, the most widely read Sinhala prose work was Pansiya Panas Jataka Pota, number 6 in our list of sources.

3. He returned to read his favourite, the Sinhala "Lakbima" on the verandah of the cottage.

4. The "majoritarian Sinhala Buddhist" campaign will get shriller as the war victory arrives.

5. The mainly Sinhala province also has a large population of Indian-origin Tamils working in plantations. In that council, the UPFA won more than two-thirds of the seats, with 72% percent of the vote.

6. Both Sinhala and Tamil languages have enjoyed official status since the Indo-Lanka accord in 1987, which resulted in the 13th amendment to the constitution.

7. There is hardly any form of Sinhala literature which has not been fed by the well springs of jataka stories.

8. Several Sinhala kings are noted for driving back the Tamil invasions.

9. Sinhala people assert that Sri Lanka belongs exclusively to the Sinhala Buddhists.

10. Add to this the racist policies of the British, which deepened the conflict between the Tamil and Sinhala ethnic groups, with the result that to the present, there has been no way to resolve it.

11. Indeed, I suspect that I am one of the few people remaining to routinely address him by his first name and use the familiar Sinhala address - oya - when talking to him.

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12. On April 7, Premier Wen Jiabao's address was published by major English and Sinhala newspapers in Sri Lanka just before his official visit to the country.

13. Sri Lankan politicians have severely curtailed English education, insisting that Sinhalese should be taught only in Sinhala and Tamils in Tamil.

14. For the last two centuries, since the Tamils started to immigrate to sri Lanka with its Sinhala majority, the two ethnic groups have been in conflict.