[lg policy] THE TAMIL LANGUAGE IN SRI LANKA Part 9 Posted on February 26th, 2019 KAMALIKA PIERIS A huge government apparatus has been created to deliver the Tamil language to a reluctant and disinterested population. An Official Languages Commission was established in 1991 by the Official Languages Commission Act No. 18 of 1991. The Commission is composed of six members, of whom only the Chairman serves in a full-time capacity. The Commissioner of the Official Languages Department is Secretary to the Commission. The Commission has four objectives. The first objective is to recommend principles of policy on the use of the official languages and to monitor and supervise compliance with the provisions of the Constitution on language in Chapter IV of the 1978 Constitution. Secondly, to take all such actions and measures as are necessary to use the official languages (Sinhala and Tamil) and the link language (English) in accordance with the spirit and intent of Chapter IV. Thirdly to promote the

[Harold Schiffman]

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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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