Sri Lanka: Language key to harmony

Mon Apr 6 16:22:15 UTC 2009

Forwarded From: edling at lists.sis.utsa.edu

Daily News

Language key to harmony

Language is the main source for peace and harmony of a society with
multi-ethnic groups. If Sinhala people could understand and speak
Tamil language and if Tamils could speak and understand Sinhala
language there would have not been an ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka.

Education Minister Susil Premajayantha made these observations
speaking at an opening ceremony of the National Language Centre for
balanced learning at the National Institute of Education donated by
the German Technical Corporation (GTZ) recently.

Full story:

http://www.dailynews.lk/2009/04/03/news31.asp

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 Harold F. Schiffman

Professor Emeritus of
 Dravidian Linguistics and Culture
Dept. of South Asia Studies
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305

Phone:  (215) 898-7475
Fax:  (215) 573-2138

Email:  haroldfs at gmail.com
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/

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