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Sinhala is one of the official languages of Sri Lanka and the mother tongue of over 70% of the population. Outside Sri Lanka it is used among immigrant populations in the U.K., North America, Australia and some European and Middle Eastern countries. As for the genetic relation, it belongs to the Ind...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam, the Netherlands ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Pub. Co.,
©2010.
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| Colección: | London Oriental and African language library ;
v. 15. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Sinhala is one of the official languages of Sri Lanka and the mother tongue of over 70% of the population. Outside Sri Lanka it is used among immigrant populations in the U.K., North America, Australia and some European and Middle Eastern countries. As for the genetic relation, it belongs to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European languages. Although the earliest surviving literature in Sinhala dates from the 8th century A.D. its written tradition has traced a longer path of more than 2000 years. Among the major topics covered in this volume are the writing system, phonology, morphology, gra. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiv, 296 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789027288530 9027288534 9789027238153 9027238154 |
| ISSN: | 1382-3485 ; |