Category: Language
THE PROBLEM OF LANGUAGE IN CEYLON
Address at the Ceylon Branch of the Royal Empire Society delivered on September 7, 1951 The problem of language cannot be isolated from the problems of education and politics. The many- sided character of linguistic problems in education has been…
THE STATUS OF THE TAMIL LANGUAGE
Address of Thanks to the Throne Speech in the Senate on May 8, 1956 There are many matters which are not mentioned in the Throne Speech and I should like to enumerate at least some of them. There has been…
THE OFFICIAL LANGUAGE BILL
Speech made in the Senate on July 3, 1956 Senator Azeez: Mr. President, the hon. Leader of the House has just told us that the chief objective of this Bill is to assist the common man to take his due…
THE LANGUAGE PROBLEM – A MIDDLE PATH SOLUTION
Article in the Sunday Observer of June 23, 1957 In our life-time, our Country has never faced a crisis so serious as it is now confronted with and fraught with such dire consequences – reminiscent of the violence that was…
THE LANGUAGES IN THE CURRICULUM OF THE CEYLONESE MUSLIMS
Seminar at the All-Ceylon Y.M.M.A. Conference on June 26-28, 1959 Ceylon has one official language – Sinhalese – provided statutorily, two national languages – Sinhalese and Tamil – recognized historically and three instructional languages – Sinhalese, Tamil…