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Heikki Lunta is the personification of the snow god in the folklore of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, influenced by Finnish mythology. [1] The character of Heikki Lunta is a product of the heavy Finnish-American presence in the Keweenaw Peninsula of Michigan , paired with a tremendous annual snowfall. [ 2 ]
Heikki Lunta, created by David Riutta, is a snow god from Atlantic Mine, Michigan. This Finnish character was originated from a song titled “Heikki Lunta Snowdance Song”, [20] which was created in 1970 to summon snowfall at Range Snowmobile Club's snowmobile race. According to the town, the song created an abundance of snow before the race ...
[20] [21] In 2008 he started a free internet version of it, the first online English–Sinhala dictionary. [22] [23] Kulatunga later admitted that he had infringed the copyright of the Malalasekera English–Sinhala dictionary in creating his software, but he said in 2015 that he no longer infringed on copyrights.
Sinhala dialects are the various minor variations of Sinhalese language which are based on the locale (within Island of Sri Lanka) and the social classes and social groups (e.g. university students). Most of the slang are common across all dialects.
Exception from the standard are the romanization of Sinhala long "ä" ([æː]) as "ää", and the non-marking of prenasalized stops. Sinhala words of English origin mainly came about during the period of British colonial rule in Sri Lanka. This period saw absorption of several English words into the local language brought about by the ...
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.
Pages in category "Sinhala words and phrases" This category contains only the following page. This list may not reflect recent changes. G. Geuda
Pages in category "Lists of Sinhala words of foreign origin" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. D.