I'm from Sri Lanka. I have to agree that average srilankan restaurant food is not delicious at all I always prefer to eat homemade srilankan food or higher quality restaurants 😅
Thé French couple if they need to eat western food then they should go to restaurants where they serve western food in most post part of Sri Lanka. They are complaning that food was not that good in Sri Lanka
We are a little behind in the food game compared to the asian powerhouses like Vietnam, Thailand , Korea, Japan...this is good feedback if anything, we have to imporove!!
To the french couple: 1st Paris is dirty, seen it 😂😂 2nd, it is shocking how many French people cannot speak English. 3rd, French food is just butter and wheat 😂 Thanks for visiting SL.
No that is not true. Thé majority of Young French can speak english very well. It is just they do not like speaking english in France. They expect non French speaking people to atleast try to speak french in France. Thé French are proud as equally as english about their history…understandable..like thé Tamils and Singaleese proud of each other about their history in Sri Lanka.
our food is good, but you know the quality of many road side hotel is bad, these people probably went to thailand , vietnam where they get nicer fresh food for cheap, our food is too expensive, when you go for qualiy stuff
Language in South of Sri Lanka is more similar to West-Bengal and Odisha ! Very different from Tamil. Also people in South of Sri Lanka are more genetically related to West-Bengali and Odisha people than they are to the Tamils
This is what Sinhalese Sri Lanka think and want falsely to portray to the world that you are of North Indian origin but the truth is the Sinhalese are not descended from Bengalis or Oriyan or from any north Indian people but from ancient Tamils from what is now modern-day Kerala and Tamil Nadu. Everything about the Sinhalese reeks of South India, Kerala and Tamil Nadu. The people, the looks, food, clothes, culture, festivals and nothing resembling anything North Indian. This is why when you ask any foreigner, they immediately state Sri Lanka resembles South India. Sinhalese people do not like the truth being told. The Sinhalese language has a lot of Pali or Sanskrit words but its foundation is Tamil, structure, lexicon, syntax, grammar and alphabet, therefore it sounds very Tamil. You can keep on denying the truth.
@SivaSankaran I agree with some of your arguments where the Sinhalese, Pali, Sanskrit, Hindi All are Indo- Aryan languages and Tamil is a Dravidian language. Sinhala along with Dhivehi of Maldives evolved separately though. Of course the Tamil is way older than sinhala Please correct me if I am wrong. But it's not the Sinhalese people who say that the Sinhala language is coming from North India. It's the history in fact. It says Sinhalese came to the island in the 5th century BC from Northwestern India. The DNA evidence is there to prove the roots as well. P.S - Commented independently to share the knowledge without any bias towards anyone.
@@SivaSankaran-om2ey We don't need to be in denial , Sinhala is not an ethnicity. It's a nationality - so there are people who's ancestors came from all over India. Yes, there are people with genes from South India, but there are more with genes from Odisha and Bengal. And there are genes from people who were here way before there was anything called Tamil. As for the language , it's definitely closer to Bengali than South Indian languages , but there are words from Tamil too.
@@manjukasoysa3901 Your name Soysa itself belies your recent South Indian Tamil origin like most of the present-day Sinhalese. Ironically the biggest anti Tamils and supporters of Sinhalese Aryan myth are the post 15T century South Indian Tamil immigrants to the south and west of the island who have now taken up the Sinhalese Buddhist and Catholic identity. Please read the history of the Sinhalese Karawa, Salagama,Durawa, Hunu, Hali, and many other similar castes who now make up more around half the present-day Sinhalese. Add to these all the so-called Sinhalese aristocrats and many of the upper castes, both low country and Kandyan, they are all descended from South Indian upper castes and aristocrats. Other than one original one off migration actually not from Bengal/Odisha region but largely from Northwestern Gujarat/Maharashtra region all other migration to the island from prehistoric, ancient, medieval and up to recent times, has been from then Tamil south India. Present day Tamil Nadu, Kerala, southern Andhra and Karnataka, called the ancient Tamil country in India. Even these men took local Dravidian Yaka women and South Indian Pandian women as their wives. These few immigrants from North India, never created the Sinhalese or triggered their evolution but came and got assimilated, their DNA is also found amongst the native Sri Lankan Tamils from the north and east. It was the arrival of Buddhism around 2300 years ago and the large-scale conversion of the native semi or proto-Tamil speaking Yaka tribes and the Dravidian Naga, who largely ruled them in the south, central and western parts of the island that triggered the evolution of the Sinhalese. The original Sinhalese are largely descended from this semi or proto-Tamil Elu speaking Dravidian tribes who predominated in the south of the island and were closely related to the Tamil speaking Naga tribes, who largely inhabited the north and east. The Naga also spoke Elu but later around 2500-3000 years ago, their ruling elite adopted proper Tamil as their mother tongue. These Proto Tamil speaking Dravidian Naga, Yaka and other tribes migrated from mainland South India not only from modern day South India, around 5000 years ago or more. They not only migrated from what is now Tamil Nadu and Kerala but some even from further north from what is Karnataka, Odisha, Telangana and Andhra. When Buddhism arrived the Naga predominating areas in the north and east of the island, which was more elite and now proper Tamil speaking did not convert on a mass scale and even if many converted here, they still retained their ancient Tamil identity, and by 10AD, the Tamil Buddhists here reconverted back to Hinduism, however in the Yaka predominating areas, down south, the population converted on a mass scale, and started to mix up their local Tamil dialect Elu with the Pali and Prakrit, that came with Buddhism, they could not withstand the onslaught of Pali and Prakrit that came with Buddhism, as they were speaking only a proto or semi Tamil dialect, moreover unlike the Proper Tamil speaking Naga, despite being powerful in their areas, they were far less sophisticated and boorish. This resulted in a new language and identity being formed in the south of the island by 7AD. Called Sinhala. Elu (local Tamil Pali (Prakrit) = Hela or old Sinhalese, which like Elu was very close to its Proper Tamil mother, compared to modern Sinhalese, that especially from late 19Th century has been deliberately Sanskritized. Sinhalese is classified as an Indo Aryan language but even renowned Sinhalese linguists and anthropologists, acknowledge the fact that it has a very strong Tamil/Dravidian foundation on top of which an Indo Aryan super structure has been built. Even now 30-35% of modern Sinhalese vocabulary is derived from Tamil and its lexicon, syntax, grammar and alphabet are all purely derived from Tamil and not from Pali or Sanskrit. Take all the Tamil/Elu derived words from Sinhalese vocabulary and they will be no Sinhalese but just Pali and Sanskrit. Even Modern DNA studies done even by Sinhalese geneticists have proven that the closest relatives to the Sinhalese, are the Sri Lankan Tamils and vice versa, and all the major ethnicities in Sri Lanka are very closely related to each other, including the So called Sri Lankan Muslims, and they are all very closely related to the population of South India and the ancestors of the Sri Lankan Muslims hardly arrived from western Asia but from South India and this is the reason they speak Tamil. Even the Indian origin estate Tamils who only arrived 200 years ago are very closely related to the Sinhalese, Sri Lanan Tamils, and Muslims, but a bit more. Proving the core ancestry of the entire population of the island is Dravidian with various inputs from other parts of India, and further, amongst various people. They only came here and got assimilated and got absorbed but never replaced them or supplanted them. The king who converted to Buddhism was given the title, Thevanai Nambiya Theesan in Tamil or Devnampiyatissa in Prakrit(Pali) we do not know his real name. It both languages the title means more or less the same. In Tamil it means Theesan who had great faith in God. In Pali it means Tissa who loved God's name. Thessan( Prakrit version Tissa) was a very common Tamil name during this era. As per Keeladhi excavations in Tamil Nadu. His father was King Mootha SIvan a pure Tamil name, meaning the great or venerated Lord Siva and his older brother was King Maha Sivan, proving all these people were Tamil Nagas. This is from Sinhalese anthropologists and historians. th-cam.com/video/aMbhLoJWXs0/w-d-xo.html
@@Memories1985 DNA evidence proves that there is input some immigrants from Northwest India not only amongst the present-day Sinhalese but also amongst the native Sri Lankan Tamils from the north and east, proving that the arrival of these few hundred immigrant men from somewhere in West India did not create the Sinhalese people or language in the south of the island. These men came and took local semi-Tamil speaking Dravidian Yaka women or Pandian Tamil Hindu women and got assimilated into the local Tamil or semi-Tamil speaking Dravidian population (Naga and Yaka). It as the arrival of Buddhism and the Pali/Prakrit language that is associated with it that came 2300 years ago and the large scale conversion of the local Dravidian Yaka tribes in the south, central and western parts of the island that created the Sinhalese people and language in the South of the island by 7AD, when they started to corrupt their local Tamil dialect( Elu) with the Pali and Prakrit of Buddhism. In the Naga predominating north and east of the island, where proper Tamil was spoken by this time, the population did not convert to Buddhism on a large scale, so the ancient Tamil identity was preserved in these areas. The core ancestry of the original Sinhalese are these Dravidian Yaka and the core ancestry of the Sri Lankan Tamils are the Dravidian Naga, both these people arrived from South India during ancient times and are cloesely related to each other. Into this other immigrant from India, one, one-off immigration from northwest India but the rest from south India from ancient to recent times came and got assimilated into them but never supplanted them. Latest DNA studies also prove this. Proving everyone in Sri Lanka area very closely related to each other, even the Indian origin estate Tamils, who do not have any North Indian origin are related to the Sinhalese and Sri Lankan Tamils but a bit genetically further and we are all closely related to the people of South India. With some genetic input from this one-off immigration from north India amongst the Island's Sinhalese and native Tamils. This is the truth. Anyone can see the people of Sri Lanka do not look anything like North Indian but in everyway very close to the people of Kerala and Tamil Nadu and Keral a few centuries ago was Tamil.
I watched all your videos, wow you have done an excellent job, I hope our government will find a solution to make waste management more accurate, and I hope everyone who visits Sri Lanka has a safe and enjoyable journey. I travel to Colombo every day for work, and buses are the most dangerous, but cars, vans, and other vehicles are very safe, and I hope that the government will fix this problem soon. The question I would like to know is what kind of service they are seeking from Sri Lanka, since I am a marketer for a company, and my clients include a travel agency with operations in Italy, Sri Lanka, India, and a few other countries. This company provides Tuk Tuk challenges, rentals, and other services. We can arrange that, and people are willing to invest in it. Thank you! 🙌
After you have decoded the latest find of Dimbulagalla rock inscription where the name of a prince ‘muta siva’ is mentioned you will discover not only the connection between the Indian north to Sri Lanka but also how both countries are connected to Karnataka (the Pandyas?) to their north and our south!.
@@deenbandhupatel8715no.. minority speaks tamil.. majority speaks sinhala which is native to the island.. more than 75% of the population speaks it..😊
Yes when a few centuries ago Kerala also spoke Tamil. Old Malyalam is Chera Tamil. Modern Malayalam is a mixture of ancient Chera middle Tamil and Sanskrity
Would be nice to see if possible for more Sri Lankan people being interviewed, and can help many by asking some good questions. that may help, many in Sri Lanka, if you can interview many more Sri Lankan Citizens and get ther opinion on how Sri Lanka can improve as a country, and what ordinary Sri Lankan Citizens, the Sri Lankan government and foreign tourists who visit the country can do to make Sri Lanka a better country than what it is today. You can also ask from ordinary Sri Lankan Citizens on what Sri Lankans expect from their government and members of the parliament (MPs) to improve to better serve it's citizens in Sri Lanka and make Sri Lanka a better country to live.
2nd couple says they don’t like the SL food come on😂 they haven’t seen the buffet spread in many hotels as they need. They are not guided properly I guess. They are full negative lol
Wow Great show. Keep it up!! Please visit our little Villa in the mountains where Time stands Still!. It has breathtaking mountain views. You could do a Video there. Hindagala Retreat Kandy Sri Lanka
As per Sri Lankan government Statistics 75% of the country speak Sinhalese as their first language and 25%of the country Speak Tamil as their first language(Native Sri Lankan Tamil 11.2% Indian origin Tamil 4.8% and Sri Lankan Moor or Muslim 9.7%) . Sinhalese is the predominantly spoken language in the southern seven provinces, other than in Nuwara Eliya district, where the majority of the population is Indian origin Tamil. Tamil is also widely spoken in the City of Colombo. In the north and east of the country in all 8 districts where native Sri Lankan Tamils and Sri Lankan Muslims live, Tamil is the predominantly spoken language. Lots of Sinhalese racists are posting racist lies here. Sri Lankan Tamils are native to the island just like the Sinhalese and have been on the island from 300BCE and the north and east of the island is their homeland, where they had been living continuously been living from ancient times and ruled themselves until European colonization. It was the British who created a new colony called Ceylon in 1833 for their own convenience, just like the way they created India, Pakistan and many other countries, from the then separate Sinhalese and Tamil parts of the island, that had been separate nations from ancient times. The island has never been a Sinhalese only country as many Sinhalese racists are coming here and deliberately misinforming. It has been a multiethnic and multi religious country, where both languages have been spoken from ancient times and the Sri Lankan Tamils and the Sinhalese are very closely related people. Largely descended from ancient Dravidian migration from South India into which other immigrations from India again largely from then Tamil South India and a one-off migration from somewhere in north India was assimilated by both people, not just the Sinhalese. The Sinhalese language only came into existence in the south of the island dues the arrival or Prakrit and Pali with arrival of Buddhism 2300 years ago the large-scale conversion of the southern Dravidian Yaka, who after conversion started to mix their local Tamil dialect with the Pali and Sanskrit of Buddhism. In the north and east of the island, where the Naga predominated the people did not convert much to Buddhism and even the ones who converted retained their ancient Tamil identity and by 10AD these ancient Tamil Buddhist in the north and east reconverted back to Hinduism, just like in the rest of India.
From 10AD Migration from South India to the Tamil parts of the island became a trickle but became a huge sea to the Sinhalese parts, especially post 15Th Century. The Portuguese and Dutch colonials imported hundreds of thousands of Tamil low castes and settled them along the southern and western littorals to maintain the huge southern spice estates and to do menial service work. Their Sinhalese descendants are now the Sinhalese Karawa, Salagama, Durawa, Hunu, Hali and many other service castes. They largely take Portugueses family names like Fernando, Perera, Peries, Soysa etc. to hide their recent largely low caste South Indian Tamil origin. They now make up around 50% of the present-day Sinhalese, most of the coastal and low land Sinhalese are descended from these post 15Th Century South Indian Tamil Immigrants. On the other side of the spectrum most of the Sinhalese aristocrats and upper castes both low country and Kandyan are descended from South Indian upper castes and aristocrats. Again, mostly Tamil but some from Tamil speaking Telugu origin Naicker from Madurai/Thanjavur. The last few kings from the Kingdom of Kandy were Tamils Naickers from Madurai and even more than 90% of the so-called ancient Sinhalese kings were from Pandian Royal family and used to take Tamil Royal princesses from South India as their queens and brides and with them arrived hundreds of Tamil aristocrats. They also imported hundreds of Tamil soldiers, artisans and craftsmen from their Tamil homeland in South India, settled them and gave them land, in addition to this most of the ancient Tamil Chola, Pandian, and Pallava invaders and immigrants came and largely settled in the Sinhalese areas, where they invaded, and over the centuries became Buddhists and gradually took on a Sinhalese identity. Therefore, other than this one-off migration from somewhere in Northwest India of around 700 men, who again married local and south Indian Tamil women and got assimilated into the local Dravdian Tamil Naga and Yaka population, all other migration to the island from prehistoric to recent times is from then Tamil South India and this is the truth and fact
@@rushilabeykoon3162 Sinhalese racists do not like the truth being told and start attacking any Tamil or anyone else stating the historical truth as Tamil militants or LTTE supporters to shut them up, so that they can keep on repeating their lies and misinformation, thinking that a lie always told becomes the truth. They use their Sinhalese army police and recourses of the Sri Lankan state to silence the Tamils living on the island and think they can do the same to others living overseas and get enraged, when they cannot and resort to abuse
@@rushilabeykoon3162 Really did not know that I was a Tamil militant for speaking out the truth and facts. It is common for Sinhalese to call accuse Tamils who speak out the truth and call them Tamil Militants and LTTE sympathizers inorder to shut them up
It is so funny that the Indian guy is saying they have more varieties of food than in Sri Lanka How big is India compared to SL How many States are there How many different cultures are there. First if all we don't speak the same language. Only Tamil speak Tamil which the language if Tamil Nadu otherwise others speak Sinhalese ir English. French couple too has not visited the high end hotels or at least good restaurants. Small hotels and wayside places offer only basic food catering to locals at affordable prices So you don't find much variety in those places .
to the french guys did you guys went to a five star hotel or atleast a commendable hotel & tried Sri lankan food or just some seller in the street?because Sri lankan food is way better french food anyday
Why not interview the locals in tourist places their views & observations on tourists - specially ones who try to have everything free or spend as little as possible in the island. No help for SriLanka. Disrespect for your country.
Indian guy is good and Indian food is various,delicious too but i feel like he has no idea 'bout variety of sri lankan food. Sri lankan foods have big herbal values,even though I'm a sri lankan i haven't tried all sri lankan curries and dishes. There are programs in sri lanka which search for different patterns to cook the same item that people use in different areas in sl (as spicy food,as pickles,sweets and snacks.For an example we eat mango as fruit, mango chutney, mango pickles,..) Vegetarians hv so many dishes in sri lanka. Foreigners just try kottu,hoppers,etc they are only famous in hotels & restaurants in sl. because they are easy to cook.but they've never even heard of curry leaves sambal,banana leaves sambal, aggala (portions) made of jack seeds, fried chilly sambal,kola kadha(porridge made of extremely herbal fresh leaves),belimal,koththamalli,fried jack with honey(snacks),Burnt Rambuttan seeds(more delicious than cashews)..for etc watch @poornathenaturegirl youtube channel.....to see the variety❤
I dont understand why indian think sl look india ..sl and india totally different sl similar to bali thailand india similar to pakistan nepal bangladesh our culture religion language totally different
Faced Racism in Sri Lanka - th-cam.com/video/qfMh1dglmkk/w-d-xo.html
Why Sri Lanka, why not India?
Compare Sri Lankan water temperature to Europe for a sea bath
Things they didn't know and were surprised about Sri Lanka after arriving
You are doing great interviews with foreigners. Thank you for promoting Sri Lanka in a different way !!!
BIG RESPECT FOR THE 1ST GUY.... LOVE FROM SRILANKA.
Danke schön David grüße aus Deutschland
I'm from Sri Lanka. I have to agree that average srilankan restaurant food is not delicious at all I always prefer to eat homemade srilankan food or higher quality restaurants 😅
Thé French couple if they need to eat western food then they should go to restaurants where they serve western food in most post part of Sri Lanka. They are complaning that food was not that good in Sri Lanka
We are a little behind in the food game compared to the asian powerhouses like Vietnam, Thailand , Korea, Japan...this is good feedback if anything, we have to imporove!!
@dkir3829 There is also a French Restaurant but only in Colombo the capital city if you prefer French food.
@@dkir3829 විදේශිකයන්ගේ මස් පරිභෝජනය වැඩියි. මස් බුදින්නන් එලවලුවලට එතරම් කැමති නෑ.
@@dkir3829 Asian power houses...??
@@ranjitcrofton6369 yes
To the french couple:
1st Paris is dirty, seen it 😂😂
2nd, it is shocking how many French people cannot speak English.
3rd, French food is just butter and wheat 😂
Thanks for visiting SL.
That's just their opinion. Maybe they really didn't see the best of Sri Lanka. Not everyone gets to have the best experiences while visiting.
@@yeshandesilva4871Yes
Please let's not make it a competition. They probably didn't have a good experience here and that's nothing for us to be defensive about.
No that is not true. Thé majority of Young French can speak english very well. It is just they do not like speaking english in France. They expect non French speaking people to atleast try to speak french in France. Thé French are proud as equally as english about their history…understandable..like thé Tamils and Singaleese proud of each other about their history in Sri Lanka.
The French couple seems clueless abt what kinda food Sri lanka has to offer....
our food is good, but you know the quality of many road side hotel is bad, these people probably went to thailand , vietnam where they get nicer fresh food for cheap, our food is too expensive, when you go for qualiy stuff
@@dkir3829thailand , vietnam food are not cheap at all.but yes tasty
Great video. Keep up the good work. ❤
Language in South of Sri Lanka is more similar to West-Bengal and Odisha ! Very different from Tamil. Also people in South of Sri Lanka are more genetically related to West-Bengali and Odisha people than they are to the Tamils
This is what Sinhalese Sri Lanka think and want falsely to portray to the world that you are of North Indian origin but the truth is the Sinhalese are not descended from Bengalis or Oriyan or from any north Indian people but from ancient Tamils from what is now modern-day Kerala and Tamil Nadu. Everything about the Sinhalese reeks of South India, Kerala and Tamil Nadu. The people, the looks, food, clothes, culture, festivals and nothing resembling anything North Indian. This is why when you ask any foreigner, they immediately state Sri Lanka resembles South India. Sinhalese people do not like the truth being told. The Sinhalese language has a lot of Pali or Sanskrit words but its foundation is Tamil, structure, lexicon, syntax, grammar and alphabet, therefore it sounds very Tamil. You can keep on denying the truth.
@SivaSankaran I agree with some of your arguments where the Sinhalese, Pali, Sanskrit, Hindi All are Indo- Aryan languages and Tamil is a Dravidian language. Sinhala along with Dhivehi of Maldives evolved separately though. Of course the Tamil is way older than sinhala Please correct me if I am wrong. But it's not the Sinhalese people who say that the Sinhala language is coming from North India. It's the history in fact. It says Sinhalese came to the island in the 5th century BC from Northwestern India. The DNA evidence is there to prove the roots as well.
P.S - Commented independently to share the knowledge without any bias towards anyone.
@@SivaSankaran-om2ey We don't need to be in denial , Sinhala is not an ethnicity. It's a nationality - so there are people who's ancestors came from all over India. Yes, there are people with genes from South India, but there are more with genes from Odisha and Bengal. And there are genes from people who were here way before there was anything called Tamil. As for the language , it's definitely closer to Bengali than South Indian languages , but there are words from Tamil too.
@@manjukasoysa3901 Your name Soysa itself belies your recent South Indian Tamil origin like most of the present-day Sinhalese. Ironically the biggest anti Tamils and supporters of Sinhalese Aryan myth are the post 15T century South Indian Tamil immigrants to the south and west of the island who have now taken up the Sinhalese Buddhist and Catholic identity. Please read the history of the Sinhalese Karawa, Salagama,Durawa, Hunu, Hali, and many other similar castes who now make up more around half the present-day Sinhalese. Add to these all the so-called Sinhalese aristocrats and many of the upper castes, both low country and Kandyan, they are all descended from South Indian upper castes and aristocrats. Other than one original one off migration actually not from Bengal/Odisha region but largely from Northwestern Gujarat/Maharashtra region all other migration to the island from prehistoric, ancient, medieval and up to recent times, has been from then Tamil south India. Present day Tamil Nadu, Kerala, southern Andhra and Karnataka, called the ancient Tamil country in India. Even these men took local Dravidian Yaka women and South Indian Pandian women as their wives. These few immigrants from North India, never created the Sinhalese or triggered their evolution but came and got assimilated, their DNA is also found amongst the native Sri Lankan Tamils from the north and east. It was the arrival of Buddhism around 2300 years ago and the large-scale conversion of the native semi or proto-Tamil speaking Yaka tribes and the Dravidian Naga, who largely ruled them in the south, central and western parts of the island that triggered the evolution of the Sinhalese. The original Sinhalese are largely descended from this semi or proto-Tamil Elu speaking Dravidian tribes who predominated in the south of the island and were closely related to the Tamil speaking Naga tribes, who largely inhabited the north and east. The Naga also spoke Elu but later around 2500-3000 years ago, their ruling elite adopted proper Tamil as their mother tongue. These Proto Tamil speaking Dravidian Naga, Yaka and other tribes migrated from mainland South India not only from modern day South India, around 5000 years ago or more. They not only migrated from what is now Tamil Nadu and Kerala but some even from further north from what is Karnataka, Odisha, Telangana and Andhra. When Buddhism arrived the Naga predominating areas in the north and east of the island, which was more elite and now proper Tamil speaking did not convert on a mass scale and even if many converted here, they still retained their ancient Tamil identity, and by 10AD, the Tamil Buddhists here reconverted back to Hinduism, however in the Yaka predominating areas, down south, the population converted on a mass scale, and started to mix up their local Tamil dialect Elu with the Pali and Prakrit, that came with Buddhism, they could not withstand the onslaught of Pali and Prakrit that came with Buddhism, as they were speaking only a proto or semi Tamil dialect, moreover unlike the Proper Tamil speaking Naga, despite being powerful in their areas, they were far less sophisticated and boorish. This resulted in a new language and identity being formed in the south of the island by 7AD. Called Sinhala. Elu (local Tamil Pali (Prakrit) = Hela or old Sinhalese, which like Elu was very close to its Proper Tamil mother, compared to modern Sinhalese, that especially from late 19Th century has been deliberately Sanskritized. Sinhalese is classified as an Indo Aryan language but even renowned Sinhalese linguists and anthropologists, acknowledge the fact that it has a very strong Tamil/Dravidian foundation on top of which an Indo Aryan super structure has been built. Even now 30-35% of modern Sinhalese vocabulary is derived from Tamil and its lexicon, syntax, grammar and alphabet are all purely derived from Tamil and not from Pali or Sanskrit. Take all the Tamil/Elu derived words from Sinhalese vocabulary and they will be no Sinhalese but just Pali and Sanskrit. Even Modern DNA studies done even by Sinhalese geneticists have proven that the closest relatives to the Sinhalese, are the Sri Lankan Tamils and vice versa, and all the major ethnicities in Sri Lanka are very closely related to each other, including the So called Sri Lankan Muslims, and they are all very closely related to the population of South India and the ancestors of the Sri Lankan Muslims hardly arrived from western Asia but from South India and this is the reason they speak Tamil. Even the Indian origin estate Tamils who only arrived 200 years ago are very closely related to the Sinhalese, Sri Lanan Tamils, and Muslims, but a bit more. Proving the core ancestry of the entire population of the island is Dravidian with various inputs from other parts of India, and further, amongst various people. They only came here and got assimilated and got absorbed but never replaced them or supplanted them. The king who converted to Buddhism was given the title, Thevanai Nambiya Theesan in Tamil or Devnampiyatissa in Prakrit(Pali) we do not know his real name. It both languages the title means more or less the same. In Tamil it means Theesan who had great faith in God. In Pali it means Tissa who loved God's name. Thessan( Prakrit version Tissa) was a very common Tamil name during this era. As per Keeladhi excavations in Tamil Nadu. His father was King Mootha SIvan a pure Tamil name, meaning the great or venerated Lord Siva and his older brother was King Maha Sivan, proving all these people were Tamil Nagas. This is from Sinhalese anthropologists and historians.
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@@Memories1985 DNA evidence proves that there is input some immigrants from Northwest India not only amongst the present-day Sinhalese but also amongst the native Sri Lankan Tamils from the north and east, proving that the arrival of these few hundred immigrant men from somewhere in West India did not create the Sinhalese people or language in the south of the island. These men came and took local semi-Tamil speaking Dravidian Yaka women or Pandian Tamil Hindu women and got assimilated into the local Tamil or semi-Tamil speaking Dravidian population (Naga and Yaka). It as the arrival of Buddhism and the Pali/Prakrit language that is associated with it that came 2300 years ago and the large scale conversion of the local Dravidian Yaka tribes in the south, central and western parts of the island that created the Sinhalese people and language in the South of the island by 7AD, when they started to corrupt their local Tamil dialect( Elu) with the Pali and Prakrit of Buddhism. In the Naga predominating north and east of the island, where proper Tamil was spoken by this time, the population did not convert to Buddhism on a large scale, so the ancient Tamil identity was preserved in these areas. The core ancestry of the original Sinhalese are these Dravidian Yaka and the core ancestry of the Sri Lankan Tamils are the Dravidian Naga, both these people arrived from South India during ancient times and are cloesely related to each other. Into this other immigrant from India, one, one-off immigration from northwest India but the rest from south India from ancient to recent times came and got assimilated into them but never supplanted them. Latest DNA studies also prove this. Proving everyone in Sri Lanka area very closely related to each other, even the Indian origin estate Tamils, who do not have any North Indian origin are related to the Sinhalese and Sri Lankan Tamils but a bit genetically further and we are all closely related to the people of South India. With some genetic input from this one-off immigration from north India amongst the Island's Sinhalese and native Tamils. This is the truth. Anyone can see the people of Sri Lanka do not look anything like North Indian but in everyway very close to the people of Kerala and Tamil Nadu and Keral a few centuries ago was Tamil.
I watched all your videos, wow you have done an excellent job, I hope our government will find a solution to make waste management more accurate, and I hope everyone who visits Sri Lanka has a safe and enjoyable journey. I travel to Colombo every day for work, and buses are the most dangerous, but cars, vans, and other vehicles are very safe, and I hope that the government will fix this problem soon. The question I would like to know is what kind of service they are seeking from Sri Lanka, since I am a marketer for a company, and my clients include a travel agency with operations in Italy, Sri Lanka, India, and a few other countries. This company provides Tuk Tuk challenges, rentals, and other services. We can arrange that, and people are willing to invest in it. Thank you! 🙌
After you have decoded the latest find of Dimbulagalla rock inscription where the name of a prince ‘muta siva’ is mentioned you will discover not only the connection between the Indian north to Sri Lanka but also how both countries are connected to Karnataka (the Pandyas?) to their north and our south!.
No way.... Indians speak Sinhalese???
😂.. ikr? Maybe he thinks it's tamil.?
He 's drunk 😂😂 out of mind....thats why 😁
It's sounds familiar. Sounds like a South Asian language even if you don't know it
Tamil language
What would you expect from an uneducated country 😂
Though it’s premium it’s very inexpensive for tourists compared to the living expenses of locals…
Language same ....are you crazy 😂😂😂
I guess most people in sri lanka speak tamil. Isn’t it ?
@@deenbandhupatel8715 so tell me....why are you think like that
@@deenbandhupatel8715no but there is tamil in every sighn board so if u know tamil its easy to navigate
@@deenbandhupatel8715 about 15% of population speak tamil
@@deenbandhupatel8715no.. minority speaks tamil.. majority speaks sinhala which is native to the island.. more than 75% of the population speaks it..😊
Language is different in kerala and Tamil Nafi compated to Galle . It is Sinhala
Yes when a few centuries ago Kerala also spoke Tamil. Old Malyalam is Chera Tamil. Modern Malayalam is a mixture of ancient Chera middle Tamil and Sanskrity
@@SivaSankaran-om2eymodern Tamil nadu also lost middle tamil. Now Malayalam preserves more Tamil words than ancient Tamil😂.
Would be nice to see if possible for more Sri Lankan people being interviewed, and can help many by asking some good questions. that may help, many in Sri Lanka, if you can interview many more Sri Lankan Citizens and get ther opinion on how Sri Lanka can improve as a country, and what ordinary Sri Lankan Citizens, the Sri Lankan government and foreign tourists who visit the country can do to make Sri Lanka a better country than what it is today. You can also ask from ordinary Sri Lankan Citizens on what Sri Lankans expect from their government and members of the parliament (MPs) to improve to better serve it's citizens in Sri Lanka and make Sri Lanka a better country to live.
2nd couple says they don’t like the SL food come on😂 they haven’t seen the buffet spread in many hotels as they need. They are not guided properly I guess. They are full negative lol
Wow Great show. Keep it up!! Please visit our little Villa in the mountains where Time stands Still!. It has breathtaking mountain views. You could do a Video there. Hindagala Retreat Kandy Sri Lanka
As per Sri Lankan government Statistics 75% of the country speak Sinhalese as their first language and 25%of the country Speak Tamil as their first language(Native Sri Lankan Tamil 11.2% Indian origin Tamil 4.8% and Sri Lankan Moor or Muslim 9.7%) . Sinhalese is the predominantly spoken language in the southern seven provinces, other than in Nuwara Eliya district, where the majority of the population is Indian origin Tamil. Tamil is also widely spoken in the City of Colombo. In the north and east of the country in all 8 districts where native Sri Lankan Tamils and Sri Lankan Muslims live, Tamil is the predominantly spoken language. Lots of Sinhalese racists are posting racist lies here. Sri Lankan Tamils are native to the island just like the Sinhalese and have been on the island from 300BCE and the north and east of the island is their homeland, where they had been living continuously been living from ancient times and ruled themselves until European colonization. It was the British who created a new colony called Ceylon in 1833 for their own convenience, just like the way they created India, Pakistan and many other countries, from the then separate Sinhalese and Tamil parts of the island, that had been separate nations from ancient times. The island has never been a Sinhalese only country as many Sinhalese racists are coming here and deliberately misinforming. It has been a multiethnic and multi religious country, where both languages have been spoken from ancient times and the Sri Lankan Tamils and the Sinhalese are very closely related people. Largely descended from ancient Dravidian migration from South India into which other immigrations from India again largely from then Tamil South India and a one-off migration from somewhere in north India was assimilated by both people, not just the Sinhalese. The Sinhalese language only came into existence in the south of the island dues the arrival or Prakrit and Pali with arrival of Buddhism 2300 years ago the large-scale conversion of the southern Dravidian Yaka, who after conversion started to mix their local Tamil dialect with the Pali and Sanskrit of Buddhism. In the north and east of the island, where the Naga predominated the people did not convert much to Buddhism and even the ones who converted retained their ancient Tamil identity and by 10AD these ancient Tamil Buddhist in the north and east reconverted back to Hinduism, just like in the rest of India.
From 10AD Migration from South India to the Tamil parts of the island became a trickle but became a huge sea to the Sinhalese parts, especially post 15Th Century. The Portuguese and Dutch colonials imported hundreds of thousands of Tamil low castes and settled them along the southern and western littorals to maintain the huge southern spice estates and to do menial service work. Their Sinhalese descendants are now the Sinhalese Karawa, Salagama, Durawa, Hunu, Hali and many other service castes. They largely take Portugueses family names like Fernando, Perera, Peries, Soysa etc. to hide their recent largely low caste South Indian Tamil origin. They now make up around 50% of the present-day Sinhalese, most of the coastal and low land Sinhalese are descended from these post 15Th Century South Indian Tamil Immigrants. On the other side of the spectrum most of the Sinhalese aristocrats and upper castes both low country and Kandyan are descended from South Indian upper castes and aristocrats. Again, mostly Tamil but some from Tamil speaking Telugu origin Naicker from Madurai/Thanjavur. The last few kings from the Kingdom of Kandy were Tamils Naickers from Madurai and even more than 90% of the so-called ancient Sinhalese kings were from Pandian Royal family and used to take Tamil Royal princesses from South India as their queens and brides and with them arrived hundreds of Tamil aristocrats. They also imported hundreds of Tamil soldiers, artisans and craftsmen from their Tamil homeland in South India, settled them and gave them land, in addition to this most of the ancient Tamil Chola, Pandian, and Pallava invaders and immigrants came and largely settled in the Sinhalese areas, where they invaded, and over the centuries became Buddhists and gradually took on a Sinhalese identity. Therefore, other than this one-off migration from somewhere in Northwest India of around 700 men, who again married local and south Indian Tamil women and got assimilated into the local Dravdian Tamil Naga and Yaka population, all other migration to the island from prehistoric to recent times is from then Tamil South India and this is the truth and fact
Bro we know u a tamil militant of the ltte. Stop spreading your misinformation and do something else
@@rushilabeykoon3162 Sinhalese racists do not like the truth being told and start attacking any Tamil or anyone else stating the historical truth as Tamil militants or LTTE supporters to shut them up, so that they can keep on repeating their lies and misinformation, thinking that a lie always told becomes the truth. They use their Sinhalese army police and recourses of the Sri Lankan state to silence the Tamils living on the island and think they can do the same to others living overseas and get enraged, when they cannot and resort to abuse
@@rushilabeykoon3162 Really did not know that I was a Tamil militant for speaking out the truth and facts. It is common for Sinhalese to call accuse Tamils who speak out the truth and call them Tamil Militants and LTTE sympathizers inorder to shut them up
@@SivaSankaran-om2ey that's a lot of claims. What sources are you referring to ? Asking purely out of curiosity.
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Pls change Ur way of question on cultural shock
You can write here your questions and I will ask them
It is so funny that the Indian guy is saying they have more varieties of food than in Sri Lanka How big is India compared to SL How many States are there How many different cultures are there. First if all we don't speak the same language. Only Tamil speak Tamil which the language if Tamil Nadu otherwise others speak Sinhalese ir English. French couple too has not visited the high end hotels or at least good restaurants. Small hotels and wayside places offer only basic food catering to locals at affordable prices So you don't find much variety in those places .
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No to Negombo then!
Srilanka not same language indian speaking and only some part of tamil speaking same tamilnadu.
to the french guys did you guys went to a five star hotel or atleast a commendable hotel & tried Sri lankan food or just some seller in the street?because Sri lankan food is way better french food anyday
They sèem like budget travellers . There is no way they can afford to eat in fine star hôtels in Sri Lanka.
Sinhala language like bangali same language
Socond guy 😂😂
Suggestion : better english for some peoples 😂 he need to learn better english too
Why not interview the locals in tourist places their views & observations on tourists - specially ones who try to have everything free or spend as little as possible in the island. No help for SriLanka. Disrespect for your country.
Bulnur I think you better discontinue this channel..
Indian guy is good and Indian food is various,delicious too but i feel like he has no idea 'bout variety of sri lankan food. Sri lankan foods have big herbal values,even though I'm a sri lankan i haven't tried all sri lankan curries and dishes. There are programs in sri lanka which search for different patterns to cook the same item that people use in different areas in sl (as spicy food,as pickles,sweets and snacks.For an example we eat mango as fruit, mango chutney, mango pickles,..) Vegetarians hv so many dishes in sri lanka. Foreigners just try kottu,hoppers,etc they are only famous in hotels & restaurants in sl. because they are easy to cook.but they've never even heard of curry leaves sambal,banana leaves sambal, aggala (portions) made of jack seeds, fried chilly sambal,kola kadha(porridge made of extremely herbal fresh leaves),belimal,koththamalli,fried jack with honey(snacks),Burnt Rambuttan seeds(more delicious than cashews)..for etc watch @poornathenaturegirl youtube channel.....to see the variety❤
I think the expectation of indians is very high when you have this much variety within one state of india
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India 💩 , srilanka is සිංහල country
Need any aid kid?
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I dont understand why indian think sl look india ..sl and india totally different sl similar to bali thailand india similar to pakistan nepal bangladesh our culture religion language totally different
What he said that Indian state of Kerala is similar to Sri lanka
So Kerala is not similar to Sri lanka?
Kerala, Goa etc looks like Sri lanka.
These kind of contents are very important..coz of this we can fix our faults..ty balnur & denis 🫶.. ask next time what they don't like about Sri Lanka