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  2. Languages of Sri Lanka - Wikipedia

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    Sri Lankan sign languages. Keyboard layout. QWERTY, Sinhala keyboard, Tamil 99. The main languages spoken in Sri Lanka are Tamil and Sinhala. Several languages are spoken in Sri Lanka within the Indo-Aryan, Austronesian, and Dravidian families. Sri Lanka accords official status to Sinhala and Tamil, with English as a recognised language.

  3. List of official languages by country and territory - Wikipedia

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    A language that uniquely represents the national identity of a state, nation, and/or country and is so designated by a country's government; some are technically minority languages. (On this page a national language is followed by parentheses that identify it as a national language status.) Some countries have more than one language with this ...

  4. Languages of Tanzania - Wikipedia

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    Tanzania is a multilingual country. There are many languages spoken in the country, none of which is spoken natively by a majority or a large plurality of the population. Swahili and English, the latter of which was inherited from colonial rule ( see Tanganyika Territory ), are widely spoken as lingua francas. They serve as working languages in ...

  5. Commonwealth of Nations - Wikipedia

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    While, due to their shared constitutional histories, most countries in the Commonwealth have outwardly similar legal and political systems, several of them – including Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Fiji, Gambia, Grenada, Nigeria, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Sierra Leone, Uganda – have experienced one-party rule, civilian or military ...

  6. Gotabaya Rajapaksa - Wikipedia

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    Nandasena Gotabaya Rajapaksa, RWP, RSP ( Sinhala: නන්දසේන ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ; Tamil: நந்தசேன கோட்டாபய ராஜபக்ஷ; born 20 June 1949) is a former Sri Lankan politician and military officer, who served as the eighth President of Sri Lanka from 18 November 2019 until his ...

  7. List of newspapers in Tanzania - Wikipedia

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    The Tanzania Times English tanzaniatimes.net weekly Citizen: Dar es Salaam: 2004 Mwananchi Communications Limited: English: Homepage: Daily Discovery Tanzania: Tanzania 2021 Discovery Tanzania Magazine English www.discovery.tz Online Taifa La Tanzania Arusha 2021 Eastern Africa News Network Kiswahili www.taifatanzania.com daily Daily News: Dar ...

  8. List of adjectival and demonymic forms for countries and ...

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    The following is a list of adjectival and demonymic forms of countries and nations in English and their demonymic equivalents. A country adjective describes something as being from that country, for example, "Italian cuisine" is "cuisine of Italy". A country demonym denotes the people or the inhabitants of or from there; for example, "Germans ...

  9. Dawoodi Bohra - Wikipedia

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    An estimated 2,500 Bohras live in Sri Lanka and the capital city of Colombo is their largest settlement. In 2000, Burhanuddin inaugurated Masjid al-Hussaini at Glen Aber Place, Colombo, the largest Dawoodi Bohra mosque in Sri Lanka, which was the venue of Ashara Mubaraka in 2008, 2009, and 2019.