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Singhalais
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Cingalais (peuple)
Sinhalese people (Sinhala Janathāva) are an Indo-Aryan ethno-linguistic group native to the island of Sri Lanka. They were historically known as Hela people (හෙළ). They constitute about 75% of the Sri Lankan population and number more than 16.2 million. The Sinhalese identity is based on language, cultural heritage and nationality. The Sinhalese people speak Sinhala, an insular Indo-Aryan language, and are predominantly Theravada Buddhists, although a minority of Sinhalese follow branches of Christianity and other religions.
Demonstrative
Demonstratives (abbreviated ) are words, such as this and that, used to indicate which entities are being referred to and to distinguish those entities from others. They are typically deictic, their meaning depending on a particular frame of reference, and cannot be understood without context. Demonstratives are often used in spatial deixis (where the speaker or sometimes the listener is to provide context), but also in intra-discourse reference (including abstract concepts) or anaphora, where the meaning is dependent on something other than the relative physical location of the speaker.
Langue SOV
Une langue SOV est, en typologie syntaxique, une langue dont les phrases suivent, généralement, un ordre sujet-objet-verbe. D'après l'étude de 402 langues par Russell S. Tomlin publiée en 1986, 45 % des langues dans le monde suivent le modèle de SOV, et 75 % des langues naturelles sont des langues SOV ou SVO (sujet-verbe-objet). Cet ordre est le plus fréquent et représente environ 45 % des langues. Parmi les langues naturelles, SOV est le type le plus commun.
Pali Canon
The Pāli Canon is the standard collection of scriptures in the Theravada Buddhist tradition, as preserved in the Pāli language. It is the most complete extant early Buddhist canon. It derives mainly from the Tamrashatiya school. During the First Buddhist Council, three months after the parinibbana of Gautama Buddha in Rajgir, Ananda recited the Sutta Pitaka, and Upali recited the Vinaya Pitaka. The Arhats present accepted the recitations, and henceforth, the teachings were preserved orally by the Sangha.
Manuscrits sur ôles
vignette|Ôle du écrite en odia Les manuscrits sur ôles (ou olles, feuilles de palmier) ont été les plus importants supports de texte en Inde et en Asie du Sud-Est pendant des siècles. Ils sont connus en Indonésie sous le nom de lontar. Ce matériau à l'avantage d'être souple, léger, facile d'emploi et de bien résister au climat tropical. Le mot ôle provient du tamoul ôlei qui veut dire « feuille ». Avant de pouvoir être employées, les feuilles de palmier sont coupées à la taille désirée.
Maldivien
Le maldivien, localement dv, est une langue indo-aryenne parlée par locuteurs, principalement aux Maldives (dont elle est la langue officielle) ainsi qu'au Lakshadweep, autre archipel ayant le statut de territoire de l’Inde (sous la forme du dialecte mahl ou mahal). Le mot divehi vient du sanskrit dvīpa qui signifie « île ». Divehi, ou plutôt la forme complète divehi-bas, signifie la langue des insulaires. La transcription officielle en usage aux Maldives est Dhivehi.
Culavamsa
Le Culavamsa ou Choolavansha (« dernière généalogie ») est un texte en pali compilé par des moines bouddhistes singhalais qui couvre une période allant du à la prise de contrôle de Ceylan par les Britanniques en 1815. Avec les chroniques du Dipavamsa et du Mahavamsa, le Culavamsa donne une description historique continue de Sri Lanka sur plus de deux mille ans. C. A. Gunarwardena, « Culavamsa », in Encyclopedia of Sri Lanka, New Dawn Press, New Delhi, 2006 ( éd.), Catégorie:Histoire du Sri Lanka Catégorie:
Vedda language
Vedda is an endangered language that is used by the indigenous Vedda people of Sri Lanka. Additionally, communities such as Coast Veddas and Anuradhapura Veddas who do not strictly identify as Veddas also use words from the Vedda language in part for communication during hunting and/or for religious chants, throughout the island. When a systematic field study was conducted in 1959, the language was confined to the older generation of Veddas from Dambana.
Elu
Eḷa, also Elu, Hela or Helu, is a Middle Indo-Aryan language or Prakrit of the 3rd century BCE. It is ancestral to the Sinhalese and Dhivehi languages. R. C. Childers, in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, states: [Elu] is the name by which is known an ancient form of the Sinhala language from which the modern vernacular of Ceylon is immediately received, and to which the latter bears is of the same relation that the English of today bears to Anglo-Saxon...
Province de Sabaragamuwa
The Sabaragamuwa Province (සබරගමුව පළාත Sabaragamuwa Paḷāta, சபரகமுவ மாகாணம் Sabaragamuwa Mākāṇam) is one of the nine provinces of Sri Lanka, the first level administrative division of the country. The provinces have existed since the 19th century but did not have any legal status until 1987 when the 13th Amendment to the Constitution of Sri Lanka established provincial councils. The Sabaragamuwa Province contains two districts: Ratnapura and Kegalle.