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Jaya Wewa (Sinhala: ජය වේවා) is a salutation and slogan used in Sri Lanka, best translated as "May you be victorious" or "Victory" in Sinhalese.It is most often used patriotically in the phrase "Sri Lanka Jaya Wewa" (ශ්රී ලංකා ජය වේවා; transl. Victory to Sri Lanka).
On October 25, 2012 (), The YouTube slogan (Broadcast Yourself) was taken down due to the live stream of the U.S. presidential debate. In October 2012, YouTube introduced the ability to add a translucent and overlayed custom icon at a corner of all own videos, which can link to the channel page or a specified video.
Sinhala idioms (Sinhala: රූඩි, rūḍi) and colloquial expressions that are widely used to communicate figuratively, as with any other developed language.This page also contains a list of old and popular Sinhala proverbs, which are known as prastā piruḷu (ප්රස්තා පිරුළු) in Sinhala.
The first Sinhalese translation of the Tirukkural was made by Govokgada Misihamy, [2] with the assistance of S. Thambaiah, in 1961 under the title Thiruvalluvar's Kural, who considered his translation an 'adaptation' rather than a translation for he believed that no translation of any classic into a foreign language can do justice to the original.
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Sinhala is a Unicode block containing characters for the Sinhala and Pali languages of Sri Lanka, and is also used for writing Sanskrit in Sri Lanka. The Sinhala allocation is loosely based on the ISCII standard, except that Sinhala contains extra prenasalized consonant letters, leading to inconsistencies with other ISCII-Unicode script allocations.
As per 2016, the Sinhala language is mostly spoken by the Sinhalese people, who constitute approximately 74.9% of the national population and total about 16.6 million. However, around 87% of the population are able to speak Sinhala. [2] It uses the Sinhala abugida script, which is derived from the ancient Brahmi script.