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Journal articles on the topic "Comparative Sinhalese"

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Rev, Kadigamuwe Anuruddha Thero, and Boris Mikhailovich Volkhonskii. "Russian case system against the background of the Sinhalese language tradition: linguodidactic aspect." Litera, no. 6 (June 2021): 76–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.25136/2409-8698.2021.6.35913.

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The subject of this research is the relevant questions of teaching Russian language in Sri Lanka. The analysis of curriculum for teaching Russian language developed by the Maharagama National Institute of Education (Colombo) together with the leading teachers of the University of Kelaniya demonstrates that learning Russian language in Sri Lanka carries not only educational, but also universal cultural significance, which corresponds to the national objectives in the area of education and is an integral part of their solution. The biggest difficulty faced by Sinhalese students in studying Russian language is the Russian case system, which differs substantially from the grammatical system of their native language. The article examines the peculiarities of Sinhalese case system. Leaning on the extensive linguistic material, the author analyzes and classifies the key peculiarities of the Sinhalese inflection of noun. The conclusion is drawn that one of the most effective methods of teaching Russian language to Sinhalese students lies in application of comparative approach. The analysis of meanings and functions of cases, understanding the differences between the Russian and Sinhalese grammatical systems allows identifying the most effective approaches towards teaching Russian as a foreign language. The comparative approach contributes to successful learning of prepositional-case system of the Russian language, and prevents consistent grammatical errors in the speech of foreign students.
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Kim, Mantae. "A Comparative Missiological Study of Sinhalese Buddhist and Sinhalese Christian Attitudes toward the Puberty Ritual." Missiology: An International Review 38, no. 4 (October 2010): 411–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/009182961003800405.

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Gothóni, René. "Misreading and re-reading: interpretation in comparative religion." Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis 17, no. 1 (January 1, 1999): 87–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.30674/scripta.67245.

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Religion should no longer only be equated with a doctrine or philosophy which, although important, is but one aspect or dimension of the phenomenon religion. Apart from presenting the intellectual or rational aspects of Buddhism, we should aim at a balanced view by also focusing on the mythical or narrative axioms of the Buddhist doctrines, as well as on the practical and ritual, the experiential and emotional, the ethical and legal, the social and institutional, and the material and artistic dimensions of the religious phenomenon known as Buddhism. This will help us to arrive at a balanced, unbiased and holistic conception of the subject matter. We must be careful not to impose the ethnocentric conceptions of our time, or to fall into the trap of reductionism, or to project our own idiosyncratic or personal beliefs onto the subject of our research. For example, according to Marco Polo, the Sinhalese Buddhists were 'idolaters', in other words worshippers of idols. This interpretation of the Sinhalese custom of placing offerings such as flowers, incense and lights before the Buddha image is quite understandable, because it is one of the most conspicuous feature of Sinhalese Buddhism even today. However, in conceiving of Buddhists as 'idolaters', Polo was uncritically using the concept of the then prevailing ethnocentric Christian discourse, by which the worshippers of other religions used idols, images or representations of God or the divine as objects of worship, a false God, as it were. Christians, on the other hand, worshipped the only true God.
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Baruah, Rupjyoti, Rajesh Kumar Mundotiya, and Anil Kumar Singh. "Low Resource Neural Machine Translation: Assamese to/from Other Indo-Aryan (Indic) Languages." ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing 21, no. 1 (January 31, 2022): 1–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3469721.

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Machine translation (MT) systems have been built using numerous different techniques for bridging the language barriers. These techniques are broadly categorized into approaches like Statistical Machine Translation (SMT) and Neural Machine Translation (NMT). End-to-end NMT systems significantly outperform SMT in translation quality on many language pairs, especially those with the adequate parallel corpus. We report comparative experiments on baseline MT systems for Assamese to other Indo-Aryan languages (in both translation directions) using the traditional Phrase-Based SMT as well as some more successful NMT architectures, namely basic sequence-to-sequence model with attention, Transformer, and finetuned Transformer. The results are evaluated using the most prominent and popular standard automatic metric BLEU (BiLingual Evaluation Understudy), as well as other well-known metrics for exploring the performance of different baseline MT systems, since this is the first such work involving Assamese. The evaluation scores are compared for SMT and NMT models for the effectiveness of bi-directional language pairs involving Assamese and other Indo-Aryan languages (Bangla, Gujarati, Hindi, Marathi, Odia, Sinhalese, and Urdu). The highest BLEU scores obtained are for Assamese to Sinhalese for SMT (35.63) and the Assamese to Bangla for NMT systems (seq2seq is 50.92, Transformer is 50.01, and finetuned Transformer is 50.19). We also try to relate the results with the language characteristics, distances, family trees, domains, data sizes, and sentence lengths. We find that the effect of the domain is the most important factor affecting the results for the given data domains and sizes. We compare our results with the only existing MT system for Assamese (Bing Translator) and also with pairs involving Hindi.
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STRATHERN, ALAN. "Vijaya and Romulus: Interpreting the Origin myths of Sri Lanka and Rome." Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland 24, no. 1 (August 20, 2013): 51–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1356186313000527.

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AbstractThe story of Vijaya, has long been central to the Sinhalese idea of themselves as a distinct ethnic group of Aryan origin with ancient roots in the island of Lanka. The ‘national’ chronicle of the Sinhalese, the Mahāvaṃsa (circa fifth century ce) presents Vijaya, an exiled prince from India descended from a lion, as the founder hero of Sinhala civilisation. In a companion article to this, I argued that the narrative of Vijaya and other founder-heroes in the Mahāvaṃsa revolves around the theme of transgression, and that this puzzling fact can only be explained by a consideration of the symbolic logic of the ‘stranger-king’ in origin stories and kingship rituals worldwide. In the present article, I look at other ways of explaining the narrative of Sīhabāhu, Vijaya, and Paṇḍukābhaya. First I break down the narrative into four different origin stories and consider their distribution in a range of texts from South Asia in order to reflect on possible textual inspirations for them (and even consider parallels with the Greek tale of Odysseus and Circe). Second, I consider the possibility that the narrative concerning relations with Pāṇḍu royalty reflects immediate political imperatives of the fifth century ce. Do such interpretations negate the assumption that an organic communal process of mythogenesis has been at work? In the final section this methodological dilemma is approached through comparisons with the way in which scholars have looked at the origin myths of ancient Greek and particularly Roman society. Lastly, these reflections add further weight to the global comparative model of the stranger king, for the stories of Romulus and Vijaya share an emphasis on alien and transgressive beginnings.In 2009 the Sri Lankan government finally destroyed the conventional forces of the Tamil Tigers (LTTE) as the civil war that had afflicted the island since 1983 was brought to a violent denouement in the north-east of the Vanni region. From some of the subsequent celebrations by the Sinhalese majority, it seemed that the President Mahinda Rajapaksa was hailed not only for having rid Sri Lanka of a violent menace, but for having, in one sense, re-created the island. The country could now attain the kind of genuine independence and wholeness that had been lacking for much of the period following decolonisation in 1948. After the victory, Rajapaksa was hailed as a ‘great king’ and his admirers were not slow to draw historical analogies with kings and founder-heroes of the past. Such heroes typically have to wade through blood to obtain political mastery; the Lankan chronicles imply that such is the price that must be paid for the re-establishment of society or civilisation itself.
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Samaranayake, Udagedara Mudiyanselage Jayami Esha, Yasith Mathangasinghe, and Anura Sarath Kumara Banagala. "Are predominantly western standards and expectations of informed consent in surgery applicable to all? A qualitative study in a tertiary care hospital in Sri Lanka." BMJ Open 9, no. 1 (January 2019): e025299. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2018-025299.

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ObjectiveTo identify the different perceptions on informed surgical consent in a group of Sri Lankan patients.MethodsA qualitative study was conducted in a single surgical unit at a tertiary care hospital from January to May 2018. The protocol conformed to the Declaration of Helsinki. Patients undergoing elective major surgeries were recruited using initial purposive and later theoretical sampling. In-depth interviews were conducted in their native language based on the grounded theory. Initial codes were generated after analysing the transcripts. Constant comparative method was employed during intermediate and advanced coding. Data collection and analyses were conducted simultaneously, until the saturation of the themes. Finally, advanced coding was used for theoretical integrations.ResultsThirty patients (male:female=12:18) were assessed. The mean age was 41±9 years. Sinhalese predominated (50.0%, n=15). Majority underwent thyroidectomy (36.7%, n=11). The generated theory categorises the process of obtaining informed consent in four phases: initial interaction phase, reasoning phase, convincing phase and decision-making phase. Giving consent for surgery was a dependent role between patient, family members and the surgeon, as opposed to an individual decision by the patient. Some patients abstained from asking questions from doctors since doctors were ‘busy’, ‘short-tempered’ or ‘stressed out’. Some found nurses to be more approachable than doctors. Patients admitted that having a bystander while obtaining consent would relieve their stress. They needed doctors to emphasise more on postoperative lifestyle changes and preprocedure counselling at the clinic level. To educate patients about their procedure, some suggested leaflets or booklets to be distributed at the clinic before ward admission. The majority disliked watching educational videos because they were ‘scared’ to look at surgical dissections and blood.ConclusionThe informed consent process should include key elements that are non-culture specific along with elements or practices that consider the cultural norms of the society.
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Perera, Vihanga. "Narrating Civil Conflict in Post-war Sri Lanka: Counter Memory, Working-through and Implications for North-South Solidarity." State Crime Journal 11, no. 2 (2022). http://dx.doi.org/10.13169/statecrime.11.2.0172.

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This article examines survivor/witness narratives of the Sri Lankan civil conflict (1983–2009) and their potential as counter-memories that contest and challenge authorized history dictated by the state. In situating the significance of these narratives the article draws on the prevailing conditions in post-conflict Sri Lanka, especially the surveillance and intimidation against public memory in the former war regions and the dominance of Sinhalese-Buddhist nationalism within state power. In orientation, the study is future-oriented and is preoccupied with how survivor narratives can be utilized to strengthen reconciliation and solidarity among different victim groups. It advocates for survivor/witness narratives to be incorporated as classroom material and for frameworks that appreciate comparative readings of conflict to be developed and adopted.
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Dilani, Nipunika. "A DESCRIPTIVE ANALYSIS OF THE USE OF NUMERICAL MORPHEME, “EKƎ” (ONE) BY THE NATIVE AND NON-NATIVE SPEAKERS OF SINHALA." European Journal of Literature, Language and Linguistics Studies 5, no. 3 (December 19, 2021). http://dx.doi.org/10.46827/ejlll.v5i3.308.

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“ekǝ” is a numerical morpheme that stands to mean one in English. The term is commonly inserted in mixing English codes in speaking in the native language of Sinhala in Sri Lankan society. However, the insertion of the term is complicated because it is governed by descriptive grammar rules. Thus, the current study analysed the acquisition of the use of the morpheme, “ekǝ” by native speakers and non-native speakers of Sinhalese. The study can be categorized under qualitative approach for which the primary data was collected from two native speakers and two non-native speakers of Sinhala through semi-structured interviews and observation of natural speech. The data has been analysed descriptively and comparatively referring to mental rules regarding the usage of the term. The study found that non- native speakers of Sinhala fail to acquire the complete manipulation of the term and it is suggested that they use it as a flexible term that fits into different contexts. <p> </p><p><strong> Article visualizations:</strong></p><p><img src="/-counters-/edu_01/0993/a.php" alt="Hit counter" /></p>
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Books on the topic "Comparative Sinhalese"

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Dhammapala, Gatare. A comparative study of Sinhala literature: Polonnaru period. Colombo: Godage International Publishers, 2003.

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Kan̲akarattin̲am, Ta. Tamil̲-Ciṅkaḷa ilakkiya ur̲avu: Ōr oppīṭṭu ilakkiya āyvu. Kol̲umpu: Cānti Nikētan̲, & Kol̲umput Tamil̲c Caṅkam, 1996.

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Ramesh, Subathini. A contrastive study of nominalization in Tamil and Sinhala. Colombo: Kumaran Book House, 2009.

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Ramesh, Subathini. A contrastive study of nominalization in Tamil and Sinhala. Colombo: Kumaran Book House, 2009.

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Ramesh, Subathini. A contrastive study of nominalization in Tamil and Sinhala. Colombo: Kumaran Book House, 2009.

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A contrastive study of nominalization in Tamil and Sinhala. Colombo: Kumaran Book House, 2009.

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A contrastive study of Tamil and Sinhala auxiliaries. Jaffna: R. Kailainathan, 2009.

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Regional Centre for Strategic Studies (Colombo, Sri Lanka), ed. Politics and theatre: A comparative study of the construction of nation and gender in the contemporary Sinhalese and Bengali theatres. Colombo: Regional Centre for Strategic Studies, 1999.

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Perceptions and attitudes regarding the puberty ritual: A comparative exploration of Sihalese Buddhists and Christians. New York: Peter Lang, 2012.

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Beckett, Anula Rupawathie. A comparative examination of critical religious and interreligious ingredients contributing to intercommunal harmony and disharmony in Sri Lanka: Sri Lankan Tamil Hindu dynamism, British Christian Evangelism and the rise of 20th Century Sinhalese Buddist militancy. Birmingham: University of Birmingham, 2003.

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