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The List of newspapers in Sri Lanka lists every daily and non-daily news publication currently operating in Sri Lanka. The list includes information on whether it is distributed daily or non-daily, and who publishes it.
1985. CINTEC establishes a committee for the use of Sinhala & Tamil in Computer Technology. [3]1987 "DOS WordPerfect" Reverend Gangodawila Soma Thero, who was the chief incumbent at the Springvale Buddhist temple in Melbourne, Australia asked the Lay members of the temple to produce a Monthly Newsletter for the temple in Sinhala, called "Bodu Puwath".
The first Sinhala virtual keyboard is Helakuru. Helakuru was developed by Bhasha Lanka (Pvt) Ltd for Android and iOS devices. It was first released on Android in 2011 and in 2015 it was released on App Store also. [4] In 2019, Apple allowed Sinhala to be a keyboard layout and an iPhone language to boost Apple product sales in Sri Lanka.
Motherland) is a weekly Sinhala language newspaper that publishes news, ... articles, and features related to Sri Lanka. [1] [2] ... This page was last edited on 11 ...
Lankadeepa (Sinhala: ලංකාදීප) is a daily Sri Lankan Sinhala language newspaper which is owned by Wijeya Newspapers. They were established in 1991. [1] The chairman of the organisation is Ranjith Wijewardene, the son of D. R. Wijewardena. [2] The newspaper's coverage includes politics, sports, entertainment and military.
Separate sections contain classifieds, and, depending on the city it is distributed in, local (metropolitan) news. Since 26 January 2020 the editor-in-chief of the daily Dinamina is Gamini Jayalath. [4] Previously, it was held by Pushpa Rowel and she was the first woman to rise to the rank of the Chief Editor of a Sinhala national newspaper. [5]
The Sinhala script (Sinhala: සිංහල අක්ෂර මාලාව, romanized: Siṁhala Akṣara Mālāwa), also known as Sinhalese script, is a writing system used by the Sinhalese people and most Sri Lankans in Sri Lanka and elsewhere to write the Sinhala language as well as the liturgical languages Pali and Sanskrit. [3]
The Tamil language is spoken by native Sri Lankan Tamils and is also spoken by Indian Tamils of Sri Lanka and by most Sri Lankan Moors. Tamil speakers number around 4.8 million (29% of the population), making it the second largest language in Sri Lanka. There are more than 40,000 speakers of the Sri Lankan Malay language.