A Dictionary of the Sinhalese Language
Author | : Sir Don Baron Jayatillaka |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Sinhalese language |
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Author | : Sir Don Baron Jayatillaka |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Sinhalese language |
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Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 28 |
Release | : 2015-12-25 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781522915157 |
Sinhala for children! My First Sinhala Dictionary is a picture book for introducing your multilingual child to Sinhala and English. It has over 20 every day objects to point at and share with your baby. Daddy can teach in Sinhala and Mummy in English. Read aloud and get them used to your pronunciation. Each every day object is also illustrated to help make the connection with the real world. A perfect gift to get children off to a great start in life by learning two languages at the same time: Sinhala and English. Suitable for multlingual children 0 to 7 years old. Get the paper version so that toddlers can colour in the illustrations too. Older children can practice their writing skills by filling in the included workbook.
Author | : V. T. Fernando |
Publisher | : Independently Published |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 2018-05-15 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 9781980882923 |
This book teaches the colloquial language of the Sinhala people in a straightforward and thorough manner. With an intuitive transliteration system (explained in the first chapter), a discussion of all major grammatical concepts, and numerous dialogues and exercises, Spoken Sinhala Made Simple is a valuable resource for anyone looking to speak Sinhalese.
Author | : Benjamin Clough |
Publisher | : Asian Educational Services |
Total Pages | : 1456 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 9788120601055 |
Author | : David Scott |
Publisher | : U of Minnesota Press |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0816622566 |
Formations of Ritual was first published in 1994. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. Yaktovil is an elaborate healing ceremony employed by Sinhalas in Sri Lanka to dispel the effects of the eyesight of a pantheon of malevolent supernatural figures known as yakku. Anthropology, traditionally, has articulated this ceremony with the concept metaphor of "demonism." Yet, as David Scott demonstrates in this provocative book, this use of "demonism" reveals more about the discourse of anthropology than it does about the ritual itself. His investigation of yaktovil and yakku within the Sinhala cosmology is also an inquiry into the ways in which anthropology, by ignoring the discursive history of the rituals, religions, and relationships it seeks to describe, tends to reproduce ideological-often, specifically colonial-objects. To do this, Scott describes the discursive apparatus through which yakku are positioned in the moral universe of Sinhala, traces the appearance of yakku and yaktovil in Western discourse, evaluates the contribution of these figures and this ceremony in anthropology, and attempts to show how the larger anthropology of Buddhism, in which the anthropology of yaktovil is embedded, might be reconfigured. Finally, he offers a rereading of the ritual in terms of the historically selfconscious approach he proposes.The result points to a major rethinking of the historical nature not only of the objects, but also of the concepts through which they are constructed in anthropological discourse. David Scott teaches in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Chicago.
Author | : Sameera Samarajeewa |
Publisher | : Independently Published |
Total Pages | : 148 |
Release | : 2021-04-02 |
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ISBN | : |
A book for both kids and adult beginners who want to learn about write Sri Lankan Sinhala Alphabet scripts letters. This book is created with easy understanding and easy trace of Sinhala scripts. This book contains the Selected Thirty-Six (36) Script letters which teach for the beginners.
Author | : Sumith Wanni Arachchige |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 2020-02-17 |
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This is the second edition of "Learn Spoken Sinhala". This new edition has completely revamped the first edition. The second edition is easier to carry and read, and has been meticulously proofread to remove some typos and inconsistencies. Sinhala language is used and spoken by Sri Lankans, and it is the native language of the Sinhalese, the majority race (more 70% of the population) in Sri Lanka. It is more or less the lingua franca in the country. Linguistically Sinhala is considered as a language belonging to the Indo-European Language family to which English, French, Latin, Spanish, Italian, etc belong. It enjoys a proud history of thousands of years. Sri Lanka being a miraculous and pristine island situated just below the Indian peninsula in a strateically important position along the ancient Silk Road linking the west and east parts of the world. It had been a colony of Portugese, Dutch, and last the English since 1505 up to 1948 AD. Therefore, the Sinhala language has been enriched by those European languages too. Just coming out of an unfortunate terrorist battle in the nothern part of the country, it is again becoming a hub of business, global logistics, knowledge, and tourism. Already many thousands of foreigners are employed in various projects in the country. This book is the only one in the world, which teaches the Spoken Sinhala language based on a sound grammatical underpinning. If you have a working knowledge of the English language, then using this book you can easily understand Sinhala sentence structures and patterns because the book teaches Sinhala in comparison with the English. There are hundreds of thousands of Sri Lankans now living abroad, and this book can be useful for them to teach their kids about the beautiful language Sinhala. Sinhala diaspora all over the world will find this useful. Furthermore linguists who research about various languages throughout the world can use this book for their studies. Now there are a lot of people coming to Sri Lanka as businesspersons and workers on various projects and missions. This book can be very useful for them too. The AUTHOR who is already a chamption in proliferation of (free) knowledge in Sinhala medium is willing to personally help and guide you in case you need further assistance and clarifications.
Author | : David Scott |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2022-03-08 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1400823064 |
How can we best forge a theoretical practice that directly addresses the struggles of once-colonized countries, many of which face the collapse of both state and society in today's era of economic reform? David Scott argues that recent cultural theories aimed at "deconstructing" Western representations of the non-West have been successful to a point, but that changing realities in these countries require a new approach. In Refashioning Futures, he proposes a strategic practice of criticism that brings the political more clearly into view in areas of the world where the very coherence of a secular-modern project can no longer be taken for granted. Through a series of linked essays on culture and politics in his native Jamaica and in Sri Lanka, the site of his long scholarly involvement, Scott examines the ways in which modernity inserted itself into and altered the lives of the colonized. The institutional procedures encoded in these modern postcolonial states and their legal systems come under scrutiny, as do our contemporary languages of the political. Scott demonstrates that modern concepts of political representation, community, rights, justice, obligation, and the common good do not apply universally and require reconsideration. His ultimate goal is to describe the modern colonial past in a way that enables us to appreciate more deeply the contours of our historical present and that enlarges the possibility of reshaping it.
Author | : |
Publisher | : World Book .com |
Total Pages | : 1282 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : English language |
ISBN | : 9780716602996 |
An English language dictionary, in two volumes, that provides definitions, spellings, and pronunciations to more than 225,000 terms.
Author | : |
Publisher | : Asian Educational Services |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 9788120619791 |