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Present Island Name Indigenous Name Origin Meaning Anguilla: Malliouhana Arawak: Arrow-Shaped Sea Serpent St. Martin: Soualiga Oualichi Arawak: Land of Salt; Land of Beautiful women St. Barths: Ouanalao Arawak: Toad on Top Saba: Siba Amonhana Arawak: The Rock St. Eustatius: Aloi Arawak: Cashew Tree Vieques: Bieke Taino: Small Saint Croix: Ay Ay ...
Sinhalese names usually consists of three parts. The first part is the patronymic name (family name) of the father, ancestor name or 'house name', which often has the suffix ‘-ge’ at the end of it, this is known as the 'Ge' name (ge meaning house in Sinhalese). The second part is the personal name (given name) and the third part is the surname.
The Arawak are a group of Indigenous peoples of northern South America and of the Caribbean. Specifically, the term "Arawak" has been applied at various times from the Lokono of South America to the Taíno, who lived in the Greater Antilles and northern Lesser Antilles in the Caribbean. All these groups spoke related Arawakan languages.
Names of Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka (Sinhala: ශ්රී ලංකා, romanized: Śrī Lankā; Tamil: சிறி லங்கா / இலங்கை, romanized: Ilaṅkai), officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island country in the northern Indian Ocean which has been known under various names over time. The ...
The Sinhalese people (Sinhala: සිංහල ජනතාව, romanized: Sinhala Janathāva), also known as the Sinhalese or Sinhala people are an Indo-Aryan ethno-linguistic group native to the island of Sri Lanka. [15][16] They are the largest ethnic group in Sri Lanka, constituting about 75% of the Sri Lankan population and number more ...
Indo-Guyanese or Indian-Guyanese, are Guyanese nationals of Indian origin who trace their ancestry to India and the wider subcontinent. They are the descendants of indentured servants and settlers who migrated from India beginning in 1838, and continuing during the British Raj. The vast majority of indentured labourers in Guyana came from North ...
www .ahubudu .lk. Kalasuri Arisen Ahubudu ( Sinhala: අරිසෙන් අහුබුදු; 18 March 1920 – 26 May 2011) was a Sri Lankan writer, orator, scholar, playwright, teacher ( Guru ), Sinhala lyricist, author and poet. [1] He is a member of the Hela Havula. He has received three government awards for literary works, the title ...