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  • Acoustic similarities between Sinhala language and Assamese 
    Goswami, G. (Centre for Asian Studies, University of Kelaniya, 2015)
    The study of specific languages which are linked to certain areas of research has become increasingly common and essential to the understanding of the language as a whole. This paper aims to study, analyze and compare ...
  • The Adaptation and Validation of Stroke and Aphasia Quality of Life (SAQOL-39) Scale for the Sinhala Language in the Sri Lankan Context. 
    Karunathilake, K.M.M.G.S.L.; Rathnayake, S.; Ranawaka, U.K. (19th Conference on Postgraduate Research, International Postgraduate Research Conference 2018, Faculty of Graduate Studies,University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2018)
    Stroke and aphasia rehabilitation aims to improve the quality of life of the individuals affected. Aphasia is a disturbance of the language. Most of scales for measuring health-related quality of life in stroke exclude ...
  • An Analysis of Culture-Specific Items in the French Translation VIRAGAYA ou le non-attachement of the Sinhala Novel Viragaya 
    Samarasinghe, H. (19th Conference on Postgraduate Research, International Postgraduate Research Conference 2018, Faculty of Graduate Studies,University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2018)
    Culture-Specific Items (CSIs) are the concepts which are specific for a language. The notions of these concepts differ from culture to culture. The CSIs employed in the novel Viragaya (1956) written by Martin Wickramasinghe ...
  • ‘Chandasa’ (form), ‘Viritha’ and the Sinhala Poetry Tradition.(ඡන්දස, විරිත සහ සිංහල පද්‍ය සම්ප්‍රදාය) 
    Chaminda, U.G.N. (2012)
  • A Comparative Study of Hindi and Sinhala Idioms: With Reference to Selected Idioms in Connection with Human Body Parts 
    Gunarathne, M.C. (Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)
    Idioms plays an inseparable role in Hindi and Sinhala languages which are belong to Indo- Aryan language family. In these two languages there are various idioms which indicate human body parts with related to their own ...
  • A comparative study of idioms which includes parts of the body in Japanese and Sinhala 
    Herath, H.M.P.C. (Faculty of Humanities, University of Kelaniya, 2015)
    An idiom or an idiomatic phrase is an expression, word or unity of words that has been widely used since ancient eras. Therefore, it is quite obvious that idioms have been shaped and reinforces by the people of a particular ...
  • A comparative study of Slavian and Sinhala culture based on Sinhala New Year festival and Maslenitsa 
    Wijethunga, A.P.S.L.; Abeysinghe, Y.S. (4th International Conference on Social Sciences 2018, Research Centre for Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2018)
    Sinhala New Year which is celebrated after gathering harvest from paddy field marks the transition of the sun from the House of Pisces to the House of Aries. It’s usually takes place on April 14th every year. In that new ...
  • A Comparative Study on the Sound Systems of Hindi and Sinhala Languages 
    Hirimuthugoda, H.; Perera, W.U.P. (Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)
    All languages in the world are mainly based on verbal sounds that are symbolized through letters. Thus, an interconnection between the sound system and the alphabet can be found in any language. According to the International ...
  • A Comprehensive Part of Speech (POS) Tag Set for Sinhala Language. 
    Dilshani, N.; Fernando, S.; Ranathunga, S.; Jayasena, S.; Dias, G. (The Third International Conference on Linguistics in Sri Lanka, ICLSL 2017. Department of Linguistics, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka., 2017)
    Sinhala, which belongs to Indo-Aryan language family, is a morphologically complex language. Most of the features of the words are postpositionally affixed to the root word. Thus, well-developed Part of Speech (POS) tag ...
  • A Corpus-Based Morphological Analysis of Sinhala Verbs. 
    Dilshani, W.S.N.; Dias, G. (The Third International Conference on Linguistics in Sri Lanka, ICLSL 2017. Department of Linguistics, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka., 2017)
    Verbs are essential components of a meaningful sentence and are important in understanding the sentence structure. This paper presents a morphological analysis of Sinhala verbs by combining traditional Sinhala grammar with ...
  • Culture in Translation: Shyam Selvadurei’s Funny Boy in Sinhala and French 
    Jayawardena, H.S.M.M. (Staff Development Center, University of Kelaniya, 2015)
    Shyam Selvadurei is one of the better known writers in English of the Sri Lankan Diaspora. Funny Boy, his first novel was translated in to French by Frédéric Limare and Susan Fox-Limare in 1998. The Sinhala translation ...
  • Dearth of Translators Impedes the Implementation of Official Languages Policy. 
    Subramaniam, A. (The Third International Conference on Linguistics in Sri Lanka, ICLSL 2017. Department of Linguistics, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka., 2017)
    The dearth of qualified translators and interpreters is a major hurdle to the implementation of the official languages policy, with a pressing need for them in courts, provincial councils and local authorities. The cadre ...
  • Diglossia in the Sinhala Language as a Positive Feature. 
    Rajapakshe, E.R. M. W. (The Third International Conference on Linguistics in Sri Lanka, ICLSL 2017. Department of Linguistics, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka., 2017)
    Diglossia is defined as the situation where two very different varieties of a language co-occur throughout a speech community, each with a distinct range of social functions. Sociolinguists usually talk in terms of a High ...
  • Effective Domain Specific Stopwords Generation for Sinhala Text 
    Gunasekara, S.V.S.; Haddela, P.S. (19th Conference on Postgraduate Research, International Postgraduate Research Conference 2018, Faculty of Graduate Studies,University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2018)
    Sri Lankans mainly use three languages: Sinhala, Tamil and English in day-to-day life. However, Sinhala is the mother tongue of about 15 million Sinhalese, while it is spoken by 19 million people in total. As a result, ...
  • Error Analysis on Japanese - Sinhala Translations 
    Rathnayake, D. (University of Kelaniya, 2015)
    Language translation is one of the most in-demand job opportunities for foreign language learning students in Sri Lanka. Japanese language among the other foreign languages has been taught from the school level to the ...
  • Interlingual Texting: Texting in Sinhala Using English Fonts 
    Widyalankara, R.C. (University of Kelaniya, 2015)
    In the sphere of communication in Sri Lanka using English fonts for recording Sinhala discourse during the use of Short Message Service or Interlingual Texting is very popular. Analyzing such discourse this study argues ...
  • Ithin e: kiyanne: An Investigation into Sinhala Discourse Markers 
    Perera, K. (Department of Linguistics, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)
    Even though discourse markers – such as „well‟ and „now‟ in English – have important functions in speech, they have not figured as an important research area in Sinhala language studies (Fraser 1999; Perera & Strauss 2015). ...
  • Past Tense in Jaffna Tamil and Sinhala: A Contrastive Study 
    Senthuran, S. (Department of Linguistics, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)
    Sri Lankan nation consists of varied cultures, languages and religions. Tamil and Sinhala are the major languages spoken in Sri Lanka. Sinhala belongs to the Indo-Aryan language family and Tamil belongs to the Dravidian ...
  • Portuguese Expansion - Prime Motives 
    Chandrasoma, R. (University of Kelaniya, 2005)
    In Sri Lanka, the Portuguese strategy evolved over the years. At first the motive may have been innocuously commercial and it can be argued with some factual backing that the marauding Arabs were held back by the advent ...
  • Present tense in spoken Tamil and Sinhala: A comparative analysis 
    Anusha, S. (International Conference on the Humanities (ICH 2018/2019), Faculty of Humanities, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2018)
    Syntax differs from one language to another. The second language learners find it hard to understand the syntax of the language they learn when it differs from the syntax found in their mother tongue. Thus, the similarities ...

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