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shelley
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21 Dec 2006 05:32:44 GMT Report for Abuse
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| Can anyone tell me if i stand a decent chance of finding a good sinhalese buddhsit guy as an american girl of indian descent who's buddhist? i want to marry a sinhalese guy, for it's one of my goals in life. |
Pera
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21 Dec 2006 06:56:32 GMT Report for Abuse
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Kula,
Sorry, no stat for me...
Hay, I have a pic of stone inscription in Tamil. I took the pic last time when I visited Polonnaruwa.
Would you be ind enough to translate that if I post it in my LNP page??
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Ariyalai_SB
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21 Dec 2006 09:49:33 GMT Report for Abuse
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Dear Kula,
Thanks for the information; I will check out the article.
For your information, I never claimed that the Sinhala as a language originated in India. I always stood by one Taxila's claim that the Sinhala language is a pure product of the Indic languages including the southern languages.
My belief is that, even though Malayalam is a derivative of Tamil, the respective scripts had evolved independently. However, there is an uncanny resemblance between Sinhala and Malayalie scripts.
People first must accept that the Sinhala is a product of Indic languages, then it will be easy for them to accept that the Sri Lankan peoples are mixed to the core! |
Ariyalai_SB
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21 Dec 2006 09:59:03 GMT Report for Abuse
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Mucha,
You have a good Christmas too.
You may think that you have managed to dodge my claim that you misled me; I shall bring this up at every opportunity.
It is a dent to your scholarly approach, but it is only an approach; since, you are not really a scholar, you do not need to loose any sleep over it! |
GamaRaala
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21 Dec 2006 13:28:56 GMT Report for Abuse
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Ariyalai_SB,
You said to Mucha,
You may think that you have managed to dodge my claim that you misled me; I shall bring this up at every opportunity.
This is FANTASTIC! ;-)
Ariyalai_SB misleads the forum by saying that people of 'Karalla' could read Sinhalese without prior knowledge. Then, the same Ariyalai_SB goes on to accusing others of misleading! To remind you, this is how you attempted to mislead the readers.
Have you ever been to (sic) Karalla? Do you know that people, who speak Malayalam and Thelungu, can read most of the Sinhala writing; Sinhala scripts resemble those of Malayalam and Tamil. There is a claim that a Malayali without prior knowledge in Sinhala is able to read many words from a Sinhala daily.
http://www.lankanewspapers.com/news/2005/9/3766_8.html
Mister, isn't this a gross, egregious, blatantly mischievous attempt to score a cheap point? Where on Earth have you met 'Karalla' people who could read Sinhalese without prior knowledge?
Is this your scholarly approach? Cooking up imaginary evidence? ;-) This can't be a 'dent' in your self-proclaimed 'scholarly approach', because you never had one!
Mister, you first declared that;
THE TAMILS OF SRI LANKA DO NOT DISPUTE THAT THEIR ANCESTORS ORIGINATED FROM INDIA
Then, you shot your own feet and contradicted yourself by saying;
THE NOTION THAT THE TAMILS ARE NOT NATIVE TO SRI LANKA IS LUDICROUS
Your above two assertions are self-contradicting, non-sensical and incongruous. If the ancestors of Tamils originated in India, then Tamils are native to India, not to its neighbor country!.
Edited By - GamaRaala - 21 Dec 2006 13:34:32 GMT |
Kulakottan
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21 Dec 2006 13:41:13 GMT Report for Abuse
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Pera,
Hay, I have a pic of stone inscription in Tamil. I took the pic last time when I visited Polonnaruwa.
Would you be ind enough to translate that if I post it in my LNP page??
I will try my best depending on the date of the inscription as the early scripts can only be translated by experts. However, with a little time and effort we could try.
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GamaRaala
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21 Dec 2006 13:52:44 GMT Report for Abuse
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Ariyalai_SB,
You said to Kula,
However, there is an uncanny resemblance between Sinhala and Malayalie scripts.
Ariyalai, this is a GROSS understatement of your previous lie.
This is not what you said before. What you said before was that 'Malayalam and TELUNGU scripts resembles Sinhalese script to the level that Malayalam and Telungu speakers could read Sinhalese newspapers without prior knowledge'! |
Kulakottan
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21 Dec 2006 13:56:29 GMT Report for Abuse
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Dear Ari,
My belief is that, even though Malayalam is a derivative of Tamil, the respective scripts had evolved independently. However, there is an uncanny resemblance between Sinhala and Malayalia scripts.
Sorry, I beg to differ a little on that.
The accepted tradition is that even though Malayalam started evolving as a separate language from Tamil from the 7th century, the scripts (early and later vattezuththu) remained more or less the same until the 14th century when Malayala script became independent.
However, Telugu started evolving with a different script much earlier probably around the 5-6th century A.D. due to Northern influence as Andhra was a part of the Asokan Empire and Prakrit was the administrative language. As such, Sinhala may resemble more with Telugu than Malayalam.
It is also an accepted fact that the Sinhala script evolved from the Southern Brahmi which was common to all South Indian languages. However, there is very little research done on the evolution of the Sinhala scripts to its present form. Even though I suspect that the early Tamil vattezuththu might have had a strong influence in that process, more research has to be done to validate that claim.
When you look at the early vattezuththu for Tamil 'a' you will notice the resemblance to 'ayanna'. We can identify more letters like that.
Looking at the Sinhala as a language, one has to eliminate all loan words from Prakrit/Pali and Tamil to analyze to identify the origin..
It is definitely an Indic but to be more specific an Indo- Aryan language mixed with loan words from Tamil.
Kula
Edited By - Kulakottan - 21 Dec 2006 14:08:40 GMT |
GamaRaala
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21 Dec 2006 14:10:12 GMT Report for Abuse
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Ariyalai_SB,
You said to Kula:
For your information, I never claimed that the Sinhala as a language originated in India.
Really? ;-) So, you do not claim Sinhalese Language originated in India?
Then what nonsense are you saying to Mucha that both Tamil and Sinhalese languages originated from India?
This is what you have said to Mucha before:
we have shown you that Sri lankan peoples, LANGUAGES, religions, apart from Islam and Christianity, all originated from India
I have always said that the Tamils originated from India, and at the same time, I have also been saying that the Sinhalese also originated from India
but you don't accept the fact that the Sinhalese originated from India.
I am afraid you are wrong; both Tamils and Sinhalese originated from India
We all know that Tamil language and culture originated in Tamil Nadu of India.
Where in India that Sinhala language, culture and people originate from? ;-) Sinhala Nadu?
Edited By - GamaRaala - 21 Dec 2006 14:20:06 GMT |
GamaRaala
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21 Dec 2006 14:39:15 GMT Report for Abuse
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Ariyalai_SB,
People first must accept that the Sinhala is a product of Indic languages, then it will be easy for them to accept that the Sri Lankan peoples are mixed to the core!
Mister, being homo sapiens, we all have the same core. But that 'same core' (or mixed core) does not make 'Sinhalese people' native to South India or Tamil Nadu. Nor does this 'mixed core' make German culture native to France or England or anywhere else in Europe.
Edited By - GamaRaala - 21 Dec 2006 14:39:46 GMT |
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