Official Language Act of 1956 (Sri Lanka)
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Official Language Act of 1956 (Sri Lanka)
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The Official Language Act, commonly referred to as the Sinhala Only Act, was an act passed in the Parliament of Ceylon in 1956. The act replaced English with Sinhala as the sole official language of Ceylon, with the exclusion of Tamil from the act. At the time, Sinhala was the language of Ceylon's majority Sinhalese people, who accounted for around 70% of the country's population. Tamil was the first language of Ceylon's three largest minority ethnic groups, the Indian Tamils, Sri Lankan Tamils
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1956 act making Sinhala the official language in Ceylon
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Official_Language_Act_of_1956_(Sri_Lanka)
date created:
2005-12-01T21:34:35Z
date modified:
2024-09-12T06:40:35Z
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