{"id":98061,"date":"2020-01-21T16:56:53","date_gmt":"2020-01-21T23:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=98061"},"modified":"2020-01-21T16:59:45","modified_gmt":"2020-01-21T23:59:45","slug":"national-anthem-should-be-sung-only-in-sinhala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/01\/21\/national-anthem-should-be-sung-only-in-sinhala\/","title":{"rendered":"NATIONAL ANTHEM SHOULD BE SUNG ONLY IN SINHALA"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dr. Daya Hewapathirane <\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

 Our National Anthem should necessarily be sung only in Sinhala. Sinhala language is  the defining element of our nation\u2019s culture and heritage, from historic times. Sinhala language and literature originated in Sri Lanka. All salient aspects of our national culture \u2013 tangible and intangible, either grew or evolved within the borders of our country. The Sinhala language grew out of Indo-Aryan dialects and exists only in Sri Lanka and has its own distinguished literary tradition. Sinhala is one of the world\u2019s oldest living languages. All other languages used in Sri Lanka originated in other countries.  It is significant to note that the overwhelming majority of people of Sri Lanka are distinguished by their language \u2013 Sinhala, which even today has a strong unifying effect in our motherland helping to reinforce the solidarity of our people as a unique cultural entity in the world. Almost all place names of the country from historic times, are in the Sinhala language \u2013 in the North, South, East, West and Central regions. Indigenous national sovereignty of a country is an inalienable right based on profound justice. Sovereign national rights of Sri Lanka rests with the Sinhala people who are indigenous to this country, forming its dominant majority community for over 2500 years. Sri Lanka is the only national sovereign motherland of the Sinhala people. Their culture, way of life <\/p>\n\n\n\n

and\ntheir Sinhala language originated and developed in Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka\u2019s\nNational Anthem\nshould necessarily be sung only in Sinhala.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tamils are a small non-indigenous minority community of Sri Lanka\namounting to a mere 15.4% (including the 4.2% of Indian Tamils), and the\nMuslims account for about 9% of the total population of Sri Lanka. The Sinhala\ncommunity who form the historic mainstream community of Sri Lanka amounts to\nmore than 75% of the island\u2019s population. Tamils and Muslims are small\ncommunities in Sri Lanka who settled in the island at different times in the\npast, coming from their own motherlands. The Tamils came from their motherland,\nthe Tamilnadu where their culture and language originated. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In many sovereign nations of the world, non-indigenous communities have\nsettled down and have merged with the dominant, mainstream host nation into a\nsingle file. Those settling down in host countries have a bounden duty to merge\nwith the host nation as a single coherent nation. This is facilitated by their\nlearning the language of the host nation, and actively participating in singing\nthe national anthem in that language. Sri Lanka wants all minority communities\n-Tamils, Muslims and others of whatever label, to become a part of the\nmainstream Sinhala Buddhist Nation, just the way minority communities are\nexpected to do in all other countries in the world, especially in places like\nCanada, Australia, USA, UK, Norway. All Sri Lankans irrespective of their ethnic\norigin, or other differences should sing the country’s well- established\nnational anthem only in Sinhala, the authentic language of the island. .  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dr. Daya Hewapathirane   Our National Anthem should necessarily be sung only in Sinhala. Sinhala language is  the defining element of our nation\u2019s culture and heritage, from historic times. Sinhala language and literature originated in Sri Lanka. All salient aspects of our national culture \u2013 tangible and intangible, either grew or evolved within the borders of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dr-daya-hewapathirane","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98061\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}