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Sinhala

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singhalesenounArchaic spelling of Sinhalese. [(countable) A Sinhalese person: a member of the majority ethnic group of Sri Lanka.]
sinhalesenounOf or pertaining to the majority ethnic group of Sri Lanka, their Indo-Aryan language, or their culture.

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sinhalesenoun(uncountable) The Indo-Aryan language of the Sinhalese people.
singhalesenounArchaic spelling of Sinhalese. [(countable) A Sinhalese person: a member of the majority ethnic group of Sri Lanka.]
singalesenounArchaic spelling of Sinhalese. [(countable) A Sinhalese person: a member of the majority ethnic group of Sri Lanka.]
singlishnoun(Singapore, linguistics) A highly colloquial or basilectal variety of Singapore English incorporating much Hokkien and Malay lexis.
salinannounA member of an indigenous population native to the region of the Salinas Valley, California.
cinghalnounArchaic spelling of Sinhala. [Synonym of Sinhalese (“language”).]
cinghalesenounArchaic spelling of Sinhalese. [(countable) A Sinhalese person: a member of the majority ethnic group of Sri Lanka.]
lahunounA member of an ethnic group that lives mainly in the mountainous regions of China, Vietnam, Laos and Thailand.
cingalesenounArchaic spelling of Sinhalese. [(countable) A Sinhalese person: a member of the majority ethnic group of Sri Lanka.]
jaffna tamilnouna Tamil dialect native to Jaffna and is the primary dialect used in northern Sri Lanka.
sundanesenounA member of an ethnic group in the western part of the island of Java in Indonesia, numbering approximately 42 million.
lindunounThe Austronesian language of these people.
veddanounOne of an indigenous people of Sri Lanka.
dhivehinounAn Indo-Aryan language, the official language of the Republic of Maldives.
lungunounThe language of these people.
soninkenounThe language of these people.
besisinounA member of a branch of the Orang Asli people of Malaya.
tamilnounA Dravidian language spoken in the state of Tamil Nadu, India and in Sri Lanka, Singapore, Malaysia.
helunounAlternative form of Elu (“ancestral form of the Sinhalese language”). [the ancestral form of Sinhalese, the Sinhala language, a Middle Indo-Aryan Prakrit of the 3rd century BCE.]
adnyamathanhanoun(chiefly in the plural) A people indigenous to South Australia.

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