What's the difference between singhalese and sinhala?
Singhalese
Definition:
(n. & a.) Same as Cingalese.
Example Sentences:
(1) The first published occurrence of the Laurence-Moon-Biedl Syndrome in a Singhalese family is reported.
Sinhala
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Furthermore, agreed points are not listed in his formal manifesto, so he will not have the Sinhala masses mandate.
(2) Indeed, I suspect that I am one of the few people remaining to routinely address him by his first name and use the familiar Sinhala address - oya - when talking to him.
(3) It is much photographed by Sinhala tourists who are often visiting the north for the first time.
(4) The key question is whether the common opposition candidate, Maithripala Sirisena, can cut significantly into Rajapaksa’s strong rural base among the majority Sinhala community.
(5) President Mahinda Rajapaksa, from the Sinhala majority, has made no secret of his distaste for any compromise political deal to grant a greater degree of autonomy to Sri Lanka's Tamils.
(6) The Sinhala and local buffalo had normal haematocrit values while the values for all other breeds were lower.
(7) After decades of violent repression of the island's Tamil minority by the Sinhala Buddhist majority, a brutal but effective secessionist rebel force, the Tamil Tigers, or LTTE, launched a 26-year war that saw the establishment of a de facto independent state of Tamil Eelam in the north-east.
(8) With this background the majority Sinhala vote is expected to be split almost in half at the presidential election on 26 January .
(9) "We have always assumed that those coming here had the interests of everybody – Sinhala, Tamil, Muslim alike – at heart," he said.
(10) Mutual suspicion between the largely Hindu Tamils and the largely Buddhist Sinhala majority is still deep.
(11) The flight had 52 "enforced returnees, many of whom were failed asylum seekers" and, according to the letter, the "ethnic split of the returnees was 29 Tamil, 13 Sinhala and 10 Muslim, and there were 45 males and 7 females".
(12) The Sri Lankan government has claimed that the footage is, variously, doctored, manipulated or acted by Tamil insurgents dressed as government soldiers and speaking Sinhala, the language of the vast majority of government soldiers.
(13) More controversial projects are a large Buddhist shrine – the Tamils are largely Hindu, the Sinhala majority largely Buddhist – in the centre of the town and a vast war memorial which consists of a 4m by 4m cube of concrete fissured by an oversized brass bullet and sprouting a lotus flower and a flagpole.
(14) The Tamils in the north are denied basic human rights; places of worship and of cultural or religious significance to the Tamils are being destroyed; rape is routinely used as a weapon of repression; and the ethnic makeup of the region is being re-engineered by a Sinhala plantation of fishermen and farmers.
(15) Tamil leaders have in good faith signed agreements with many Sinhala leaders to resolve their differences.
(16) The Sinhala and local buffalo had the highest carcass dressing percentages and the highest muscle; bone ratios.
(17) "Tamil, Sinhala, Hindu, Buddhist, LTTE, government, all that is finished now," said Mayuran Shivalingam, a 17-year-old who now earns a living as a day labourer.
(18) The UN has also been critical, particularly of a lack of effort towards "reconciliation" between the Sinhala majority and the country's Tamils.
(19) The speech of 18 Sinhala speaking patients over 11 years of age with previously unrepaired palatal clefts is presented preoperatively, 8 months postoperatively, and after two brief courses of speech therapy (8 and 12 months postoperatively).
(20) Growth and carcass characteristics were measured on calves from three cattle breeds-the Sinhala, Red Sindhi and Friesian-and two buffalo breeds-the local buffalo and Murrah.