Unknown to the media and most in Sri Lanka the Sinhala language has won international recognition. More precisely, it is the Sinhala script rather than the language itself that has been named as one ...
Nimal Herath, an engineer by profession, has now written a book on ‘epigraphy’, the study of inscriptions. How he moved from engineering to archaeology, particularly to paleography, is a matter of ...
Deshamanya Jayaratna Banda Dissanayake — better known in Sri Lanka as J B Disanayaka — is an Emeritus Professor Linguistics and one of the leading authorities of the Sinhala language (or Sinhalese).