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The influence of English usage for creation of new Sinhalese words

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dc.contributor.author Jayawardhane, K.B.
dc.contributor.author Rewatha Thero, U.
dc.date.accessioned 2016-01-13T08:45:42Z
dc.date.available 2016-01-13T08:45:42Z
dc.date.issued 2015
dc.identifier.citation Jayawardhane, K.B. and Rewatha Thero, U. 2015. The influence of English usage for creation of new Sinhalese words, p. 113, In: Proceedings of the International Postgraduate Research Conference 2015 University of Kelaniya, Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, (Abstract), 339 pp. en_US
dc.identifier.uri http://repository.kln.ac.lk/handle/123456789/11165
dc.description.abstract There are ten major language families that have strong interdependence relationship of each other. Sinhala is our mother tongue and the second language is English. The influence of classical languages such as Sanskrit, Pali on Sinhala plays vital roles to generate new vocabulary. There are three main streams of word categorization due to influence of other languages such as Sanskrit, Pali and Tamil on Sinhala as Tatsama, Tadbhava and niṣpanna. Many researches have been conducted with respect to those languages except English. Numerous words and usages that have been extracted from English can be seen in our mother tongue. But those new trends (propensities) are not studied on the basis of ancient philological methods mentioned in Sanskrit grammar compilations. Generally people who are not fluent in English pronounce words in identical way. But the pronunciation of those words is critically reviled. For instance, the word of Aunt is pronounced as "enty" or "ānty ". These kinds of words are considered as wrong but the pronunciation of those words is accurate because these are tadbhava words and cannot be accepted as original English words. In this paper attempt will be taken to categorize and introduce this kind of new words that should be added to Sinhalese vocabulary. en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Kelaniya en_US
dc.subject Niṣpanna en_US
dc.subject Sanskrit Grammar en_US
dc.subject Tatsama en_US
dc.subject Tadbhava en_US
dc.subject Translate en_US
dc.title The influence of English usage for creation of new Sinhalese words en_US
dc.type Article en_US


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