Also another fun fact, the reason all the letters of the Sinhalese script is really round and lacks straight lines, is because Sinhalese used to be mainly written on palm leave books (පුස් කොල පොත්) and the way you write on them is by piercing them. So any straight lines in letters would tear the book
Few years back (when among us was in it's peak) almost everyone was just saying that symbol stands for the sound 'Da' but they never realized how dumb they sounded when it's the legacy symbol for ං 😂
@@GerryBolger Yes they do teach us all three... in my case I'm good with both sinhala and english but I can only read and write Tamil and cant speak it fluently...
@@GerryBolger They teach all three in school, but more emphasis placed on either one of Sinhala or Tamil. Since I studied Sinhala as my main, I had to learn Tamil through private tuition classes.
@@GerryBolger most of the native tamil people in sri lanka have command in all 3 languages. but only a tiny fraction of native sinhalese people can read, speak and write tamil due to no use. most of the tamil people need sinhala language skills if they ever set foot outside their native settlements in jaffna for employment or some other reason.
I make the same comment on every video about Sri Lanka. The Duran Duran videos filmed there in the 80's are visually stunning and the one for "Save a Prayer" could be used by the tourism board to attract people to this beautiful island. Someday I'll make it for a visit.
Heyy, I'm Sri Lankan! My native language is Sinhala (The Sinhala script is the most gorgeous and I will die on that hill), and I can manage with English. I've tried to learn Tamil before but I'm still a major noob. Can't speak but can write a little bit. I'm hoping to try again someday =)
As an Indian Tamil Muslim, Arwi is unfortunately not practiced by us today. From my knowledge only few southern districts within the state of Tamil Nadu ever use Arwi. Wonder how Arwi is in Sri Lanka.
Great video, as always^^ I love the fact that Portuguese creoles are a thing in so many places ( eg Malaysia, India, Bangladesh, Indonesia) where the Portuguese were in the sixteenth or seventeenth centuries, even though others powers like the Dutch or the English came after (sometimes without leaving a meaningful trace, even though they came after and stayed longer). I think it has to do with the fact that the Portuguese, because they had such a small population compared to its european rivals, and because they started their empire before eugenics and race divides were a thing, if they could convert the population to christianity, they were encouraged by law to marry locals and stay to have children xD nothing like the English or dutch i think
Unfortunately Portuguese creole is still a thing in India. However, the Christians especially in North India are chill and not fanatic type like that in the South of the country so I like them.
Actually the Dutch assimilated much better with the local's than the Portuguese in the case of Sri Lanka.. Most Portuguese Creole speakers are local converts while Dutch Bughers are exclusively direct descendants of Dutch settlers in the island
This is great video 😍. And thank you for sharing about our country. Little correction, the name of our nation doesn't come just because lion but nearly 2500 years ago Sri Lanka was divided to three ethnic groups( 'Yaksha,Deva,Naage) who always fight each other and those three groups call "Hela" and before 2500 years ago Sri Lanka identify as "Heladiwa" . But in 2500 years ago Indian prince who ruled part of India call "Singharata" and those people call themselves as a "Singha" came to Sri Lanka and united those three ethnic groups with there peoples and name those four united group as a " Singha-Hela" and by time It become " Sinhala" and now we introduce ourselves as a " Sinhalese". But like Indian,like to introduce themselves as a " Hindustani or Bharati people" our people some time introduce ourselves still as a " Hela" and Sri Lanka as a "Heladiwa". And thank again for your video ❤️. ❤️ from 🇱🇰
Imagine if you ask someone living in a rural area where Finland is, he will say. I don't know the name, but I know Germany as Hitler's country. He will ask if it is nearby. There is no reason for an ordinary person to know such things. It is the same on both sides.
Sinhala isn’t directly added to Indu Aryan culture Originally Sinhala language was created with the descent of Ancient Brahmin Language combined with Pali & Sanskrit
Sri Lanka is not part of India and never was in 2500 years old written history (One of if not the World oldest written history). Sinhala originated from mixture of languages such as Sanskrit, Maghadi(Pali), being an live language later we had influence from tamil, kanatak, portuguese, holand, english, arabic etc. to Sinhala and evolved with that. Main thing on Sinhala script I couldn't see in this is Sinhala script has 60 letters including 26 vowels. Which enables write technically any sound you can hear and recreate any sound from script. Thats why native english speaking community find hard time in pronouncing sinhala words, because english has only 5 vowels and some sinhala words simply cannot write or produce in english. On tamil we have influence on kanatak, malayalum, arabic and also in tamil speaking community there is slight difference on where they from. Like northern part home to more native tamil population with history of more than two millenniums and center home to south indian workers brought by british in 19th century, also tamil used by muslim population has there own touches mainly from south east asia and east asian languages. So many variations found.
No brother. Read about Elu prakrit . It was the ancient Sinhala language spoken by ancient sri lankans. True. We have loan words from other languages. But remember Sinhala has its own root. Dont insult your mother tongue by saying it a fruit salad.
@@kalanaviraj7540 why you being offended. Sin- hela was never a language till about 1000 years of Indo-Aryan languages of pali prakrit and mixture of local aboriginal languages. Many veddas were assimilated hence sin-hela was born. Therefore the sinhala becomes the origin and unique to sri lanka. We have respect for sinhala but don't try to remake the true heritage and history of sinhala for your benefit.there are more than 1000 tamils words in sinhala. Most people are currently speaking sinhala. But as long as you kive in harmony with the rest of the minority communities, there will never be freedom and prosperity in the island 🏝
@@KethTamilTubing Your picture of Niyagala flower says it all. You are a racist. Have seen your comments on many Sri Lankan videos. We dont need LTTE terrorists in Sri Lanka again. Pls get lost.
@@KethTamilTubing We are brain washed? 😂 We didn't Brain wash Kids and give them weopens did we? we didnt brain wash women into suacide bombs did we? You did 🙄 . Lols, there is one Army guy for 5 of you because you are only 5% of the Population. Sri Lanka should deside Its army as per your minority population size or what? 😂 Next bergers will say We have 25 Army men for one Berger 😂 So Easter Bombings only killed Tamil Christians? Omg 😂
@@KethTamilTubing They who take Weopens against an Majority Elected and Internationally recognized Government are Terrorists. You are not the only Terrorists Sri Lanka had seen, Sinhalese JVP did terrorism and got the same treatment, but now they have come through the correct parth of politics without Arms. Ltte killed all tamil politicians who took the correct political path and then told you guys their is no other way but to take Arms, Ltte even killed the Tamil govener who opened the Jaffna library you are talking about 😂No wonder you guys are easily brain washed by your leaders, what a dumb ass you are? 😂
So Arwi and Tamil are basically like the equivalent of Urdu and Hindi. One written with Arabic abjad and the other one written with Brahmi script. Interesting!!
My Gradmother cpuld speak Portugese, but there was no way to find out weter she was speaking fluently or just faking 😂 But we all still love Portugese (Baila) music in Sri Lanka.
I have a question, your explaining that Sinhala language belongs to Indo Aryan group along with Hindi/Marathi ect.. which are language of north india and many thousands KMs from Sri Lanka. On the other hand Tamil belongs to language Darvidian group along with Malayalam/Tulugu ect..which are spoken in south Indian and very very close to Sri Lanka. While that being the case how do you think Tamils from south india migrate to Sri lanka ? How do you think an Indo Aryan Language ended up srilanka ? Did they migrate too ?
Term such as INDO ARYAN and DRAVIDIAN are just BS terms used by linguists. These terms has no practical meaning in India or Indian Sub continent in general. Tbf in Classical literature in India or in Subcontinent in general Languages are classified as SANSKRIT and PRAKRIT. Which means STANDARDIZED /REFINED speech and LOCAL speech. So, by that extension TAMIL and SINHALA are PRAKRIT based languages not Indo aryan or dravidian languages.
Ancient 4 Tribes of Sri Lanka spoke diffent languages. Yakka clan spoke the Ancient Sinhala, Naaga clan who were the Traders that used boats probably spoke Tamil, as it was the Trading language. Other two clans who were Farmers and Rulers might have spoken both languages. About 3000 years before its said that and outcasted prince named Vijaya came to the Island and Married the Yakka clans princes, Thus came the Indo Aryan Language to the Island. Thats why the rement Yakka clan, now the Wadda Peole talk this diffent language which is close to Nowaday Sinhala.
Yes Buddhism reached in Srilanka through India along with ancient Pali Language . Singhla language is based on Pali Language. I know basic Pali & learning Singhla . Lot more similarities.
There are evidence in Mahawamsa that Sinhala people originally came from India 500BC but there is no evidence Tamils in Sri Lanka immigrated from India, There have been Tamil people who were brought in by British colonial time but they are settled in the central part of Sri Lanka. Tamils originally lived there in SriLanka more than 10000 years before the big floods and it is there is Tamil Literature,
A very little amount of people left in Srilanka who speaks a portuguese creole language which is known as Ceylon portuguese or Srilankan portuguese . They use portuguese words but accent and grammer is based on sinhala and tamil. Decedents of portuguese ,dutch ,irish ,french people who came to srilanka during colonial era speaks this language .This community is known as burger people.Most of ceylon portuguese native speakers are living in east srilanka ( Trinco malee ). Colombo burgers cant speak this language.
There is no any Sri Lankan can speak protégés.but they almost mixed our nation.that why ppl in Sri Lanka using fonseka,perera,Fernando and more Portuguese names.and another sub music tradition starts after Portuguese came to Sri Lanka and it calls kapirinna baila.actually cannot write real pronunciation from English.😅
@@janavidinujaya1697 There is a portuguese speaking minority in Sri Lanka.They speak a creole language called Sri Lankan portuguese.Sri Lankan portuguese has many portuguese words but their accent and grammer is similar to Sinhala and Tamil. There are two types of Burgers in Sri Lanka .They are known as eastern burgers and colombo burgers.Eastern burgers still speak in portuguese while modern colombo burgers use English as their mother tongue. My family is burger and we speak Sri Lankan portuguese but only our older generation speaks it well.Sri Lankan portuguese can be learned only through family as there is no references regarding it.. Fonseka,Pereira, Peries were surnames which was used by Catholic Karawa people of Sri Lanka.Most of the time they are not ethnically burger.They were just some random local fishermen who converted to Catholicism. The De Soysas, De Silvas, Peiris, Fonsekas identify themselves as ‘Sinhalese’ though they are bearers of Portuguese Native portuguese burgers use surnames like De Livera,De Sampayo,Pasqual,Rosa,Cruuz,Corea. Native dutch burgers use surnames like Van Landenberg,Van Geyzals,Dordrecht,Van Dort,Van Hoff,Houghton,Brohier,Kelaart,Bartholomeuszoon,Sansoni kaffirhina - this is the correct way !
It doesn't make sense to call Veddha people speak a dialect of Sinhala because the Veddha communicated in their language long before Sinhala came to the island.
I can understand tamil about 90% and speak a bit. Read and write. But pronouncing tamil so freaking hard. Even if I understand my tamil friend say I can't really answer back properly on the other hand simply watching hindi movies I picked up several words. This is not my word but something said by tamil friend sinhala speaking is easy but writing is difficult, tamil speaking is hard but writing easier compared to sinhala
Find it interesting that you used the word "popular" when describing the Sinhalese language. To me you are born and grow up with the language/culture and popularity relates to a choice, you don't choose the language you learn from birth. Its the more common language yes, popularity is not relevant. However I do love this video, Sri Lanka is an interesting country and being from Australia and being a cricket fan have always had an interest in Sri Lanka.
"we don't often get a variation of a language that's only recognisable by the script it's using" No. There's a much bigger example. Urdu. It's just hindi, written in Arabic. Maybe with some extra Persian words. Infact, I would say hindi/urdu is a language that's much farther than any other regular indian languages. Hindi language didn't exist before the muslim invasion. People spoke various prakrit languages. Then muslim kings forced their language upon indians, which got mixed with parakrit and became hindi/urdu.
Sinhala is not from lions its just a coincidence,but sinhala is from the combination Siv(four) and hela(native). It's a representation of the four ancient tribes Yakka,deva,naga and raksha .
@@OkarinHououinKyouma So much is wrong about how the lankan history is portrayed. Even the name" Sri Lanka", this a Sanskrit name for the land of Buddhism which is not appropriate culturally. The pali name for this island name would sound completely different. Pali connects all castes/class of a country back in the day but Sanskrit is only for the nobility in India. This disruption of our island history is part reason why this country is in shambles if you look at it theoretically that is
@@szoom6066 I don't think there's anything wrong in that. Pali or the language of commoners, is just the language of commoners. The cultural language is/was Sanskrit and it will remain so. Priests = Nobility used to be a thing but now it has reversed. Tribal warriors are ruining the state of Sri Lanka. Sinhalese have left the path of Dharma. Let the priest handle the state of affairs and Sri Lanka will flourish. Om Buddhaye Namaha
@@OkarinHououinKyouma people should listen to the priests. Buddha has told priests to not involve in state affairs. And pali has to be used instead of Sanskrit. sanskrit has too much ego and toxicity in its history.
@@OkarinHououinKyouma Buddha has told that his teachings shouldn't change the ruling of a country,thats why monks who do politics in lanka are constantly disliked by the bigger population. Pali is for this deepa(island). Sanskrit is for Indian
im pretty sure tamil comes from the tamil kings, somewhere around during the time of the mongol empire or the split of the persian empire/after alexander the great died. (watch bill wurtz "history of the world" video)
The word “eelam” itself is from 200BCE, while SriLanka is a new name ,, eelam is considered taboo cause of the separatist wars by LTTE , for its call for “Tamil eelam” by the media’s bad exposure
Is ēlam related to the word hela which was spoken about in another comment? Also I've heard a variation of ēlam "īzham" and in the state of Kerala in India there is a community called the "ēzhavar" (ēzham people) who, some say, came from Sri Lanka in ancient times.
Eelam comes from the word Elu, ela, helu or hela. Elu prakrit is the origin of modern sinhala language of sri lanka and Divehi language of maldives . en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elu
Yeah this Indian fellows try to put us again for that.because they are one who profiting from it.one day will come soon whole Sri Lankan born Sinhalese Tamils and all will be together that day Indians will be disappear.but will always forgive them because Sri Lankans are always vise than Indians😅😅
Veddas were originally Dravidian speaking Primitive tribe! They came under the influence of Sinhalese rule, and code switching it evolved into a Sinhala creole and became an Indo Aryan language! Most Sri Lankans including Sinhalese were ethnically closer to South India yet linguistically closer to North Indians! Many Afro Americans were linguistically closer to Europeans but ethnically they were closer to Africans!
Tamil is mother of languages including Sanskrit and English as proved by Nostratic studies. th-cam.com/video/akICEPIVYqk/w-d-xo.html&si=oke_ZYGbwx8pai5J
6:58 There is no undeniable evidence for that statement too, cause there is no proto dravidian language , and old tamil is considered the mother of the dravidian languages from Indus , so If it doesn’t have a link to other Languages yet, then there is still chances for it being the mother of all!
In here Sri Lanka we living as Sri Lankans sometimes we talk different languages unique to different areas in Sri Lanka.this Tamil and Sinhalese language problem always ppl try to bring up and destroy our beautiful Sri Lanka.but now most of Sri Lankan younger generations knows this well.as history one day we will shine all together as a one nation only as Sri Lankans🇱🇰🤘🏻
Nope Sinhalese Tamils all born Sri Lankans belong our mother nation.no one should categorize as Tamils or Sinhalese or what ever.because we are Sri Lankans.
Thats why You speak same language of Tamil nadu and use Same alphabet of Tamil nadu while Sinhalese have their own language and alphabet unique to Sri lanks. Joker.😂😂
It's literally comes from sanskrit.. in sanskrit lanka means and island..😂😅😂😅.. In sinhala prakrit its lakbima or lakdiva.. Tamils got that name and make a fusion ILANGAI.. which is literally a mix of ila and sanskrit lanka..
Ohh my god. Go to seegiriya and read ancient Sinhala poems written on mirror wall. They belong to 6th to 9th century . There are morethan 1500 poems. I dont know who told you this lie. Ancient Sinhala is called ELU. Understand languages dont come from sky. They have evolution ..
@@kalanaviraj7540 In Sigiriya and other place’s the language of edicts were actually Prakrit not Sinhala! Sinhala is not a language name until 12th Century! Sinhala is a Prakrit term for the name of the island. Later on when colloquialism become stronger as with rest of the India! Every Prakrit and Dravidic dialects become independent it was the case for Marati, Gujarati, Hindi, and many Sub continental languages!
@@kalanaviraj7540 Sri Lankan Prakrit was the language of the Island at the time! There is no proof for existence of Elu language either. Hela or Elu is the native name of the island, till now no concrete proofs found. Immigrants from Sri Lanka to South India were called Eelavas because South Indian referred to the Sri Lanka Island as Eelam and Prakrit speakers of India referred the island as Sinhala! Both are Toponym not a language name
@@aalampara7853 This happen when you learn something halfway .The development of Sinhala is divided into four epochs:[17] Sinhala Prakrit (3rd c BCE to 4th c CE) Proto-Sinhala (4th c CE to 8th c CE) Medieval Sinhala (8th c CE to 13th c CE) Modern Sinhala (13th c CE to the present) You only identified modern Sinhala as Sinhala language . But no language on earth comes from sky. Language is always an evolutionary development . Languages always change over time. Sinhala never appeared in 13th century . It was modified to current Sinhala in13th century . But in reality Sinhala prakrit or Elu prakrit was here since 3rd century BC.
@@tamarind1459 does this dumb ass don’t know eelam word is 2200 years old and sinhala didn’t exists in its current form 500 years ago and Prakrit version not there before like 1500 … 🤡 fuk off
@@tamarind1459 and , Eelam is “eezham” with Tamil special La in “Tamizh” too,, it doesn’t derive from anything with that same zha sound cause others don’t have it, check about “Tamil base words” if u wanna learn something other than psedo science shit
Are you able to speak any of the languages found in Sri Lanka?
None except English.
let's see if anyone writes amogus script here
My Sinhala and Tamil are super rusty sadly.. 😅
@@NoNameAtAll2 ඔවු ඇයි අවුල්ද?
Sinhala and English
The famous British science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke semi-retired to Sri Lanka (he did some occasional writing from there).
Fun Fact: The among us alphabet is from the Sinhalese script ඞ
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Interesting
It was crazy seeing the language go from never used by anyone outside of Sri Lanka to being everywhere lol.
Also another fun fact, the reason all the letters of the Sinhalese script is really round and lacks straight lines, is because Sinhalese used to be mainly written on palm leave books (පුස් කොල පොත්) and the way you write on them is by piercing them. So any straight lines in letters would tear the book
Few years back (when among us was in it's peak) almost everyone was just saying that symbol stands for the sound 'Da' but they never realized how dumb they sounded when it's the legacy symbol for ං 😂
I opened the video as soon as the notification popped up. Such an underrated nation
I'm Sinhalese, and I can speak Sinhala, Tamil and English. :)
Are all three languages taught in school or are you just super smart?
@@GerryBolger Yes they do teach us all three... in my case I'm good with both sinhala and english but I can only read and write Tamil and cant speak it fluently...
@@GerryBolger They teach all three in school, but more emphasis placed on either one of Sinhala or Tamil. Since I studied Sinhala as my main, I had to learn Tamil through private tuition classes.
@@GerryBolger most of the native tamil people in sri lanka have command in all 3 languages. but only a tiny fraction of native sinhalese people can read, speak and write tamil due to no use. most of the tamil people need sinhala language skills if they ever set foot outside their native settlements in jaffna for employment or some other reason.
@@ranilabeyasinghe that’s good brother, now you can go to Canada,Uk, Australia and you even write driving exam in Tamil.
I make the same comment on every video about Sri Lanka. The Duran Duran videos filmed there in the 80's are visually stunning and the one for "Save a Prayer" could be used by the tourism board to attract people to this beautiful island. Someday I'll make it for a visit.
Hello, Are you from Porto, Portugal?
Thanks for sharing that piece of info
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) and The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) filmed in Sri Lanka. Love to add this facts too 😊
Heyy, I'm Sri Lankan!
My native language is Sinhala (The Sinhala script is the most gorgeous and I will die on that hill), and I can manage with English.
I've tried to learn Tamil before but I'm still a major noob. Can't speak but can write a little bit. I'm hoping to try again someday =)
Relatable, but school made me dislike it 🥲
@@gimanjayasinghe same
Can you speak and write Sinhala?
I can speak both singalong and tamil but my mother tongue is tamil
@@gimanjayasinghe yes
Sinhala is very beautiful to hear
Finally! People are recognise Sri Lanka ! Love from India 🇮🇳
The world knows about Sri lanka espeically Sri lankan economic Crisis
wow so happy to see this
😂😂😂sri lanka so popular
Thank you 🇱🇰❤️
Yes we are populer
As an Indian Tamil Muslim, Arwi is unfortunately not practiced by us today.
From my knowledge only few southern districts within the state of Tamil Nadu ever use Arwi.
Wonder how Arwi is in Sri Lanka.
Interesting
Arwi is not a dialect of Tamil? 🤔
@@jeyaramsathees6128 it is just tamil in Arabic letters
Cause we have Muslim Moors
@@comradefromtheunknownkatlo6957 oh I see . Thanq for the info
Great video, as always^^ I love the fact that Portuguese creoles are a thing in so many places ( eg Malaysia, India, Bangladesh, Indonesia) where the Portuguese were in the sixteenth or seventeenth centuries, even though others powers like the Dutch or the English came after (sometimes without leaving a meaningful trace, even though they came after and stayed longer). I think it has to do with the fact that the Portuguese, because they had such a small population compared to its european rivals, and because they started their empire before eugenics and race divides were a thing, if they could convert the population to christianity, they were encouraged by law to marry locals and stay to have children xD nothing like the English or dutch i think
Yes, it is true, Portuguese colonizers were encouraged to marry locals, that's why most Brazilians have a bit of Portuguese or indigenous ancestry!
Unfortunately Portuguese creole is still a thing in India. However, the Christians especially in North India are chill and not fanatic type like that in the South of the country so I like them.
Actually the Dutch assimilated much better with the local's than the Portuguese in the case of Sri Lanka.. Most Portuguese Creole speakers are local converts while Dutch Bughers are exclusively direct descendants of Dutch settlers in the island
You should have also mentioned that the Vedda language contains many substrate words that come from the people's original language.
This is great video 😍. And thank you for sharing about our country.
Little correction, the name of our nation doesn't come just because lion but nearly 2500 years ago Sri Lanka was divided to three ethnic groups( 'Yaksha,Deva,Naage) who always fight each other and those three groups call "Hela" and before 2500 years ago Sri Lanka identify as "Heladiwa" . But in 2500 years ago Indian prince who ruled part of India call "Singharata" and those people call themselves as a "Singha" came to Sri Lanka and united those three ethnic groups with there peoples and name those four united group as a " Singha-Hela" and by time It become " Sinhala" and now we introduce ourselves as a " Sinhalese".
But like Indian,like to introduce themselves as a " Hindustani or Bharati people" our people some time introduce ourselves still as a " Hela" and Sri Lanka as a "Heladiwa". And thank again for your video ❤️.
❤️ from 🇱🇰
nagas assimilated to Tamils, not Sinhalese BUT MANY TAMILS ALSO ASSIMILATED TO SINHALA AFTER BUDDISM
In Finland I met people who didn't know where is Sri Lanka.
That’s fine it’s a problem about their knowledge of world map and old silk road
In Sri Lanka no body knew what is Finland bro 🤣
@@aalampara7853 I'm not surprised. I don't blame them. :)
@@aalampara7853 lol that's fake ....
Imagine if you ask someone living in a rural area where Finland is, he will say. I don't know the name, but I know Germany as Hitler's country. He will ask if it is nearby. There is no reason for an ordinary person to know such things. It is the same on both sides.
Sinhala isn’t directly added to Indu Aryan culture
Originally Sinhala language was created with the descent of Ancient Brahmin Language combined with Pali & Sanskrit
Sri Lanka is not part of India and never was in 2500 years old written history (One of if not the World oldest written history).
Sinhala originated from mixture of languages such as Sanskrit, Maghadi(Pali), being an live language later we had influence from tamil, kanatak, portuguese, holand, english, arabic etc. to Sinhala and evolved with that.
Main thing on Sinhala script I couldn't see in this is Sinhala script has 60 letters including 26 vowels. Which enables write technically any sound you can hear and recreate any sound from script. Thats why native english speaking community find hard time in pronouncing sinhala words, because english has only 5 vowels and some sinhala words simply cannot write or produce in english.
On tamil we have influence on kanatak, malayalum, arabic and also in tamil speaking community there is slight difference on where they from. Like northern part home to more native tamil population with history of more than two millenniums and center home to south indian workers brought by british in 19th century, also tamil used by muslim population has there own touches mainly from south east asia and east asian languages. So many variations found.
No brother. Read about Elu prakrit . It was the ancient Sinhala language spoken by ancient sri lankans. True. We have loan words from other languages. But remember Sinhala has its own root. Dont insult your mother tongue by saying it a fruit salad.
@@kalanaviraj7540 why you being offended. Sin- hela was never a language till about 1000 years of Indo-Aryan languages of pali prakrit and mixture of local aboriginal languages. Many veddas were assimilated hence sin-hela was born. Therefore the sinhala becomes the origin and unique to sri lanka. We have respect for sinhala but don't try to remake the true heritage and history of sinhala for your benefit.there are more than 1000 tamils words in sinhala. Most people are currently speaking sinhala. But as long as you kive in harmony with the rest of the minority communities, there will never be freedom and prosperity in the island 🏝
@@KethTamilTubing Your picture of Niyagala flower says it all. You are a racist. Have seen your comments on many Sri Lankan videos. We dont need LTTE terrorists in Sri Lanka again. Pls get lost.
@@KethTamilTubing We are brain washed? 😂 We didn't Brain wash Kids and give them weopens did we? we didnt brain wash women into suacide bombs did we? You did 🙄 . Lols, there is one Army guy for 5 of you because you are only 5% of the Population. Sri Lanka should deside Its army as per your minority population size or what? 😂 Next bergers will say We have 25 Army men for one Berger 😂 So Easter Bombings only killed Tamil Christians? Omg 😂
@@KethTamilTubing They who take Weopens against an Majority Elected and Internationally recognized Government are Terrorists. You are not the only Terrorists Sri Lanka had seen, Sinhalese JVP did terrorism and got the same treatment, but now they have come through the correct parth of politics without Arms. Ltte killed all tamil politicians who took the correct political path and then told you guys their is no other way but to take Arms, Ltte even killed the Tamil govener who opened the Jaffna library you are talking about 😂No wonder you guys are easily brain washed by your leaders, what a dumb ass you are? 😂
So Arwi and Tamil are basically like the equivalent of Urdu and Hindi. One written with Arabic abjad and the other one written with Brahmi script. Interesting!!
There is no language called Arwi lmao! Tamil can also be written in Arabic script! But it’s very obsolete not widely used’
@@joel12388 wtf do you mean we lost our big muslims as a Malayalis???
@@joel12388 didn't know Sri Lanka had malayalis.
@@joel12388 interesting 🤔. So malayalis are Tamil people who speak a different language?
1:03 Looks nice.
I was actually going to suggest, you are somewhat of an addict to Breakfast Tea.
But obviously, walking the place is even dearer.
I'm from Sri Lanka but I've never met anyone who speaks Portugese or Malay in Sri Lanka
There are certainly people who speak Malay, they're concentrated along west coast. Portugese creole was spoken in negombo and trinco
The vast majority of burghurs and malays only speak English and sinhala nowadays.
My Gradmother cpuld speak Portugese, but there was no way to find out weter she was speaking fluently or just faking 😂 But we all still love Portugese (Baila) music in Sri Lanka.
@@imaadhifthikar4054 aren't the Malays mainly in the south around Kirinda and Hambantota?
@@geograexperts1554 idts. Most muslims in the south identify as Sri Lankan Moor.
Sri lankan here 🇱🇰🇱🇰🇱🇰🇱🇰
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5:52 this is true since there was a nation that was in modern Tamil Nadu and Sri Lanka that was mostly Tamil so probably that’s the reason why
Thank you very much for the videos about Sri Lanka 🇱🇰 ♥. It will promote tourism which is much needed to us.
I have a question, your explaining that Sinhala language belongs to Indo Aryan group along with Hindi/Marathi ect.. which are language of north india and many thousands KMs from Sri Lanka.
On the other hand Tamil belongs to language Darvidian group along with Malayalam/Tulugu ect..which are spoken in south Indian and very very close to Sri Lanka.
While that being the case how do you think Tamils from south india migrate to Sri lanka ? How do you think an Indo Aryan Language ended up srilanka ? Did they migrate too ?
Term such as INDO ARYAN and DRAVIDIAN are just BS terms used by linguists. These terms has no practical meaning in India or Indian Sub continent in general.
Tbf in Classical literature in India or in Subcontinent in general Languages are classified as SANSKRIT and PRAKRIT.
Which means STANDARDIZED /REFINED speech and LOCAL speech.
So, by that extension TAMIL and SINHALA are PRAKRIT based languages not Indo aryan or dravidian languages.
Ancient 4 Tribes of Sri Lanka spoke diffent languages. Yakka clan spoke the Ancient Sinhala, Naaga clan who were the Traders that used boats probably spoke Tamil, as it was the Trading language. Other two clans who were Farmers and Rulers might have spoken both languages. About 3000 years before its said that and outcasted prince named Vijaya came to the Island and Married the Yakka clans princes, Thus came the Indo Aryan Language to the Island. Thats why the rement Yakka clan, now the Wadda Peole talk this diffent language which is close to Nowaday Sinhala.
Yes Buddhism reached in Srilanka through India along with ancient Pali Language .
Singhla language is based on Pali Language. I know basic Pali & learning Singhla .
Lot more similarities.
I'm from sri lanka 🇱🇰 i can speak sinhala and english and only little bit of tamill
There are evidence in Mahawamsa that Sinhala people originally came from India 500BC but there is no evidence Tamils in Sri Lanka immigrated from India, There have been Tamil people who were brought in by British colonial time but they are settled in the central part of Sri Lanka. Tamils originally lived there in SriLanka more than 10000 years before the big floods and it is there is Tamil Literature,
There are no such evidence..
A very little amount of people left in Srilanka who speaks a portuguese creole language which is known as Ceylon portuguese or Srilankan portuguese . They use portuguese words but accent and grammer is based on sinhala and tamil. Decedents of portuguese ,dutch ,irish ,french people who came to srilanka during colonial era speaks this language .This community is known as burger people.Most of ceylon portuguese native speakers are living in east srilanka ( Trinco malee ). Colombo burgers cant speak this language.
There is no any Sri Lankan can speak protégés.but they almost mixed our nation.that why ppl in Sri Lanka using fonseka,perera,Fernando and more Portuguese names.and another sub music tradition starts after Portuguese came to Sri Lanka and it calls kapirinna baila.actually cannot write real pronunciation from English.😅
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Burgher*
@@janavidinujaya1697 There is a portuguese speaking minority in Sri Lanka.They speak a creole language called Sri Lankan portuguese.Sri Lankan portuguese has many portuguese words but their accent and grammer is similar to Sinhala and Tamil.
There are two types of Burgers in Sri Lanka .They are known as eastern burgers and colombo burgers.Eastern burgers still speak in portuguese while modern colombo burgers use English as their mother tongue.
My family is burger and we speak Sri Lankan portuguese but only our older generation speaks it well.Sri Lankan portuguese can be learned only through family as there is no references regarding it..
Fonseka,Pereira, Peries were surnames which was used by Catholic Karawa people of Sri Lanka.Most of the time they are not ethnically burger.They were just some random local fishermen who converted to Catholicism.
The De Soysas, De Silvas, Peiris, Fonsekas identify themselves as ‘Sinhalese’ though they are bearers of Portuguese
Native portuguese burgers use surnames like De Livera,De Sampayo,Pasqual,Rosa,Cruuz,Corea.
Native dutch burgers use surnames like Van Landenberg,Van Geyzals,Dordrecht,Van Dort,Van Hoff,Houghton,Brohier,Kelaart,Bartholomeuszoon,Sansoni
kaffirhina - this is the correct way !
It doesn't make sense to call Veddha people speak a dialect of Sinhala because the Veddha communicated in their language long before Sinhala came to the island.
actually today's Sinhala people are a mix of Veddha(said to be a mix of russian,afgan and other ethnicities),Bengali,south and north indian people
I can understand tamil about 90% and speak a bit. Read and write. But pronouncing tamil so freaking hard. Even if I understand my tamil friend say I can't really answer back properly on the other hand simply watching hindi movies I picked up several words. This is not my word but something said by tamil friend sinhala speaking is easy but writing is difficult, tamil speaking is hard but writing easier compared to sinhala
Find it interesting that you used the word "popular" when describing the Sinhalese language. To me you are born and grow up with the language/culture and popularity relates to a choice, you don't choose the language you learn from birth. Its the more common language yes, popularity is not relevant. However I do love this video, Sri Lanka is an interesting country and being from Australia and being a cricket fan have always had an interest in Sri Lanka.
I think 'popular' in this context is meant to mean "used by a majority of the population". That's what I thought anyway.
@@niroshanaperera7330 yea fair, and personally I’d just use “common” for that explanation.
@@dylancrichton2227 Sinhala is the most spoken language.
@@deshika27 yes I know that, and I’m just stating to describe that ‘common’ is a far better choice of word than ‘popular’.
@@dylancrichton2227 Fair point
I'm A Sri Lankan Burgher...And I Speak English...My Surname Is Brohier... Appreciate For Sharing 🌈🌻🙌...
thanks for review my country as it really help somehow get over from economic crisis 😔
My boss says Sri Lankans are civilized we are not. Which is true.
Where r u from
@@typicalasian2730 from an uncivilized country
Hi ! Im Sinhalese And I can speak Sinhala, Tamil, English
Cool
"we don't often get a variation of a language that's only recognisable by the script it's using"
No. There's a much bigger example.
Urdu.
It's just hindi, written in Arabic. Maybe with some extra Persian words.
Infact, I would say hindi/urdu is a language that's much farther than any other regular indian languages.
Hindi language didn't exist before the muslim invasion.
People spoke various prakrit languages.
Then muslim kings forced their language upon indians, which got mixed with parakrit and became hindi/urdu.
Croatian and Serbian (and bosnian although not anymore)
Wym no he just said it was uncommon. Pretty sure he also covered this exact topic before
Can you make a video on the Sami languages?
No portugese. Only sinhala,tamil and english
Sinhala is not from lions its just a coincidence,but sinhala is from the combination Siv(four) and hela(native). It's a representation of the four ancient tribes Yakka,deva,naga and raksha .
Omg this is so similar to the Vedic saying
@@OkarinHououinKyouma So much is wrong about how the lankan history is portrayed. Even the name" Sri Lanka", this a Sanskrit name for the land of Buddhism which is not appropriate culturally. The pali name for this island name would sound completely different. Pali connects all castes/class of a country back in the day but Sanskrit is only for the nobility in India. This disruption of our island history is part reason why this country is in shambles if you look at it theoretically that is
@@szoom6066 I don't think there's anything wrong in that. Pali or the language of commoners, is just the language of commoners. The cultural language is/was Sanskrit and it will remain so. Priests = Nobility used to be a thing but now it has reversed. Tribal warriors are ruining the state of Sri Lanka. Sinhalese have left the path of Dharma. Let the priest handle the state of affairs and Sri Lanka will flourish. Om Buddhaye Namaha
@@OkarinHououinKyouma people should listen to the priests. Buddha has told priests to not involve in state affairs. And pali has to be used instead of Sanskrit. sanskrit has too much ego and toxicity in its history.
@@OkarinHououinKyouma Buddha has told that his teachings shouldn't change the ruling of a country,thats why monks who do politics in lanka are constantly disliked by the bigger population. Pali is for this deepa(island). Sanskrit is for Indian
Love from Sri Lanka ❤️
I am a Sinhalese and I need a Tamil Gf ❤
I'm sri Lankan tamizhan I can speak தமிழ் and sinhala
we don't get a variation of language where the difference is how they are written: Hindi/Urdu are we joke to you.
There are many Dutch words that you have left out.
Eye opening ❤
Very interesting!
Telungu is also speaken in Sri Lanka...
Actually not but as Sinhalese we respect all the languages
No bro
What tf is telgu
Interesting. Where?
@@Gadavillers-Panoir There are thelugu gypsies in Sinhalese areas of the country . They are called " Ahiguntika "in sinhala language .
im pretty sure tamil comes from the tamil kings, somewhere around during the time of the mongol empire or the split of the persian empire/after alexander the great died. (watch bill wurtz "history of the world" video)
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"Ma lay a lamb" 😂 guys we need native youtubers to explain South Asia these youtubers just do it for the views.
Which name did this video explain?
Simha of Sankrit is similar to Simba of Swahili, almost in pronunciation
Singlish is the commonest language now
I am from sri Lanka so this is a w for me
They also speak Tamil, a Dravidian language
අහ්හ් දැන් දැක්කේ 😌
Sinhala has in common with Dhivehi, both being insular indo Aryan languages,
I speak Sinhalese.
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And,, the Tamils of SriLanka link isn’t working
The word “eelam” itself is from 200BCE, while SriLanka is a new name ,, eelam is considered taboo cause of the separatist wars by LTTE , for its call for “Tamil eelam” by the media’s bad exposure
Is ēlam related to the word hela which was spoken about in another comment? Also I've heard a variation of ēlam "īzham" and in the state of Kerala in India there is a community called the "ēzhavar" (ēzham people) who, some say, came from Sri Lanka in ancient times.
@@muo1kor i think Eelam may have been the base word , Sanskritized in to hela,, not sure , but this is how most transitions happen
@@joel12388 yea while Eelam is the base word,
Eelam comes from the word Elu, ela, helu or hela. Elu prakrit is the origin of modern sinhala language of sri lanka and Divehi language of maldives . en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elu
So we gonna start that civil war back up in the comments or are we cool?
we cool...
Nah! We cool now.
Let's be cool. The discussion needs to happen civilly between leaders, not in crazy comments sections
Srilankans won genocidal war, so they are cool, after all winners write the history,, not the losers ,, they are forced to assimilate or die
Yeah this Indian fellows try to put us again for that.because they are one who profiting from it.one day will come soon whole Sri Lankan born Sinhalese Tamils and all will be together that day Indians will be disappear.but will always forgive them because Sri Lankans are always vise than Indians😅😅
Why don’t you have more views
Vedda language isn't Dravidian origin? ! Even vedda itself Dravidian word
Nop. You can search yourself . Surprisingly ,Veddah language is Aryan.
Bro plz explore more or don’t mention like this it’s not good
Veddas were originally Dravidian speaking Primitive tribe! They came under the influence of Sinhalese rule, and code switching it evolved into a Sinhala creole and became an Indo Aryan language! Most Sri Lankans including Sinhalese were ethnically closer to South India yet linguistically closer to North Indians! Many Afro Americans were linguistically closer to Europeans but ethnically they were closer to Africans!
Tamil is the best language in the world ❤❤❤❤
Tamil is mother of languages including Sanskrit and English as proved by Nostratic studies.
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Is snhalaese imgarant from africa before thamil like sentalease
No . They are indo aryans
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6:58 There is no undeniable evidence for that statement too, cause there is no proto dravidian language , and old tamil is considered the mother of the dravidian languages from Indus , so If it doesn’t have a link to other Languages yet, then there is still chances for it being the mother of all!
I don't understand. Are you saying that there is a possibility that Tamil is the mother of *all* languages? Because that is very, very unlikely.
Is there any profit for u guys try to showing what the f??
When you love your mother tongue too much, you loose your common sense .🤭
No mention of the damn civil war? Smart
Why mention it
Then he should mention about the 96 cricket world cup and Tsunami too?
For what? 😂 .
6:10
The UK is also an island, not belonging to Europe 😉😜
In here Sri Lanka we living as Sri Lankans sometimes we talk different languages unique to different areas in Sri Lanka.this Tamil and Sinhalese language problem always ppl try to bring up and destroy our beautiful Sri Lanka.but now most of Sri Lankan younger generations knows this well.as history one day we will shine all together as a one nation only as Sri Lankans🇱🇰🤘🏻
That is 1896 not 1796
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sinhala ( sanskruit 10,000bc , indo-aryan 18,000 bc , magadi 2600 bc )
chi lanaka mother languge is chihalese languge 🔥 ඩොන්
Don't lie
tamils are indigenous people of srilanka
Nope
Nope, vedas are indigenous
The vedda grous are believed to be living on this island for 10000-18000 years
Nope Sinhalese Tamils all born Sri Lankans belong our mother nation.no one should categorize as Tamils or Sinhalese or what ever.because we are Sri Lankans.
@@janavidinujaya1697 yep!!
Dravidic and Indic country
Lmao no ...
Tamil is the original language of Sri Lanka. Sinhala came later.
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@@Lucky_mieyes you are jokers
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Oh yeah right.. ok 😂
Thats why You speak same language of Tamil nadu and use Same alphabet of Tamil nadu while Sinhalese have their own language and alphabet unique to Sri lanks. Joker.😂😂
Did you know that the word Lanka comes from Tamil.
Tiger
The terrorist
@@Sllion-t3iTerrorist is better than a racist who hide under budhdhism and conduct genocide...
It's literally comes from sanskrit.. in sanskrit lanka means and island..😂😅😂😅..
In sinhala prakrit its lakbima or lakdiva..
Tamils got that name and make a fusion ILANGAI.. which is literally a mix of ila and sanskrit lanka..
Name Sri lanka
Region Asia
Language English and Sinhalese
Capital Colombo
Ethnic group White 90% Black 10%
Iam a white sri lankan from kandy🤙
quit larping, you forgot tamil and terms like white, black dont apply here
Bruh you maybe light skinned but you definitely ain't white 😂 not even the burghurs which have direct European ancestry call them self white 🤣
Wrong don’t highlight racism
Bro ure a racist white is technically european and black is sub saharan african we r brown
@@janavidinujaya1697you are sinhalese why you are very nice and supporting humanity?
Sinhala never existed in 200 BC! Only Prakrit inscriptions existed at the time! Sinhala become an language at 12th Century AD
Ohh my god. Go to seegiriya and read ancient Sinhala poems written on mirror wall. They belong to 6th to 9th century . There are morethan 1500 poems. I dont know who told you this lie. Ancient Sinhala is called ELU. Understand languages dont come from sky. They have evolution ..
Are u were there who was there at that time period go hell man
@@kalanaviraj7540 In Sigiriya and other place’s the language of edicts were actually Prakrit not Sinhala! Sinhala is not a language name until 12th Century! Sinhala is a Prakrit term for the name of the island. Later on when colloquialism become stronger as with rest of the India! Every Prakrit and Dravidic dialects become independent it was the case for Marati, Gujarati, Hindi, and many Sub continental languages!
@@kalanaviraj7540 Sri Lankan Prakrit was the language of the Island at the time! There is no proof for existence of Elu language either. Hela or Elu is the native name of the island, till now no concrete proofs found. Immigrants from Sri Lanka to South India were called Eelavas because South Indian referred to the Sri Lanka Island as Eelam and Prakrit speakers of India referred the island as Sinhala! Both are Toponym not a language name
@@aalampara7853 This happen when you learn something halfway .The development of Sinhala is divided into four epochs:[17]
Sinhala Prakrit (3rd c BCE to 4th c CE)
Proto-Sinhala (4th c CE to 8th c CE)
Medieval Sinhala (8th c CE to 13th c CE)
Modern Sinhala (13th c CE to the present)
You only identified modern Sinhala as Sinhala language . But no language on earth comes from sky. Language is always an evolutionary development . Languages always change over time. Sinhala never appeared in 13th century . It was modified to current Sinhala in13th century . But in reality Sinhala prakrit or Elu prakrit was here since 3rd century BC.
Why does this channel try to ignore the oldest name for this island - Eelam, and doesn’t talk about it , it’s origins etc
Eelam is Hela which is Sinhala..since tamils dont pronounce 'h' sound they called hela as eela
@@tamarind1459 does this dumb ass don’t know eelam word is 2200 years old and sinhala didn’t exists in its current form 500 years ago and Prakrit version not there before like 1500 … 🤡 fuk off
@@tamarind1459 and , Eelam is “eezham” with Tamil special La in “Tamizh” too,, it doesn’t derive from anything with that same zha sound cause others don’t have it, check about “Tamil base words” if u wanna learn something other than psedo science shit
Keep dreaming minority guy.😂
Elu prakrit is the ancient Sinhala language . Eelam came from the word Elu.
No the british captured Sri Lanka fully in 1815
And rule over the country till 1949
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