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The pathetic condition of Tamil language in the Sri Lankan government ministries and agencies websites. But Tamil is one of the official language of Sri Lanka.

Thursday, 5 November 2009 - 10:24 PM SL Time


The ethnic problem was largely due to the Tamil people feeling alienated particularly over the language issue and lack of equal access to the public service. It has become an urgent need to implement the language policy, says Chairman of the Official Languages Commission Raja Collure.

The Sinhala government did not magnanimously include Tamil as an official language of Sri Lanka in the constitution. But the Tamils of Sri Lanka spilled their blood for that to happen. The Sri Lankan Tamils are proud of their proper Tamil language usage and they have produced more than their share of Tamil scholars. The Eelam Tamils have been in the forefront of the protection of Tamil language and culture. Now the Sinhala government is corrupting the Tamil language on government websites, name boards and publications etc with unnecessary Sinhala words.

I think the Sinhala racism doesn`t allow them to hire the Native Tamil speakers to even do the Tamil translation related jobs. They hire the Sinhala Bakamoonas with little or no knowledge of Tamil to do the job and they mess up the name boards and websites with their Tamil translation. The pictures are just a few examples of the deliberate act of non implementation of language laws in the Sinhala Terror State even after 60 years of independence.

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Oops, the picture is too small to see the errors. :(((


Edited By - Thivya - 5 Nov 2009 16:25:58 GMT
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Ministry of Agricultural Development and Agrarian Services
http://www.gov.lk/public/office.asp?xi=1472&xl=2 - - Tamil Spelling mistake

http://www.nhda.lk/ - The National Housing Development Authority- Tamil website doesn't work


MINISTRY OF CHILD DEVELOPMENT AND WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT
Ministry of Child Development and Women and Empowerment does not even have a Tamil Title. The Title is in Sinhala and English only. The Tamil portal is full of spelling, grammar mistakes and unnecessary use of Sanskrit words.
http://www.childwomenmin.gov.lk/index.php


MINISTRY TRANSPORT -http://www.transport.gov.lk/?xl=2

MINISTRT OF INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT - Minister Responsible - Mahinda Rajapakse - The Tamil website is a mess.
http://www.industry.gov.lk/tamil/index.php


MINISTRY OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AND SOCIAL INEQUITY ERADICATION- - Even the Tamil Minister Chandrasekaran's name is FULL OF SPELLING ERROR in Tamil in the unfinished Tamil website. http://www.gov.lk/public/office.asp?xi=1478&xl=2


MINSITRY OF DISASTER MANAGEMNT AND HUMANRIGHTS- Tamil website is with full of spelling errors. In Tamils, slight change of word can mean something. for example, in this website 'kanni'(teen age girl)used for land mines. It is supposed to be kaNNi vedi. :)))
http://www.dmhr.gov.lk/tamil/index.php


MINSITRY OF EXPORT DEVELOPMENT AND INTERNATIONAL TRADE-
The Tamil website is unfinished and not updated. Even the Minister's name and information FULL OF SPELLING ERROR in Tamil. It seems the minister didn't even look at the his own ministries Tamil website.
http://www.gov.lk/public/office.asp?xi=1484&xl=2

MINISTRY OF HOUSING AND COMMON AMENTITIES- Even the Tamil website is in Sinhala language.
http://www.mhc.gov.lk/tamilindex.htm



Edited By - Thivya - 5 Nov 2009 16:29:34 GMT
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THE CONSTITUTION OF SRI LANKA


CHAPTER IV - LANGUAGE
Official Language.

18. 3(1) The Official Language of Sri Lanka shall be Sinhala.
4(2) Tamil shall also be an official language.
(3) English shall be the link language.
(4) Parliament shall by law provide for the implementation of the provisions of this Chapter
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National Languages.
19. The National Languages of Sri Lanka shall be Sinhala and Tamil.

Chapter IV: LANGUAGE:
18. The Official Language of Sri Lanka shall be Sinhala.
19. The national languages of Sri Lanka shall be Sinhala and Tamil.
One needs vivid imagination to interpret this as 'Tamil language has the same equal status as the majority s Sinhala language. But wait, there is more.
In 1987, under Indian intervention and coercion, this official language policy was changed by the Thirteenth Amendment to the constitution. It was announced that Tamil will be elevated to the status of an official language equal to Sinhalese, but by a deceitful manoeuvre an inequality was introduced.
The Amendment renumbered Article 18 of the 1978 Constitution as Paragraph (1), thus retaining the clause The Official Language of Sri Lanka shall be Sinhala . Beneath this, the following paragraph was added: (2) Tamil shall also be an official language.
Wouldn t it have been simpler to just say, 'The Official Languages of Sri Lanka shall be Sinhala and Tamil'? This is a classic example of the reluctance to accepting Tamils as equals.



Edited By - Thivya - 5 Nov 2009 16:31:40 GMT
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 		LK Information  5 Nov 2009 16:30:27 GMT  Report for Abuse  
All that you are concerned is about titles, spealling errors ects., intead of reflecting how VELU decimated your Tamil Children & Youth with yours assistance.
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All that you are concerned is about titles, spealling errors ects.,


This post is about the non implementation and the proper implementation of Tamil as an official language of Sri Lanka. This is one of the main root cause of the problem. As usual you Sinhalese don't want to pay attention to the root cause of the ethnic issue.



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But Tamil is one of the official language of Sri Lanka.


Sinhala Leaders are under too much pressure. Opposition politicians and many other special - interest groups such as JEHAN PERERA and Pakyasothy Saravanamuththu are no worse than LTTE killers.

Sri Lanka Tamils should learn Sinhala if they want to live among 90% of Sinhala people.

they are not learning Sinhala means, they are Racists and the govt is discriminating Sinhala against Tamil and supporting Tamil Racism.
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This woman is hilarious he he realy she is
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This is the CLASSIC example of abuse of Tamil as the official language policy in Sri Lanka.

http://www.imexport.gov.lk/TA/index.php



Edited By - Thivya - 5 Nov 2009 16:37:45 GMT
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This woman is hilarious he he realy she is


Impy the Dimwit,

You are too mundane to understand this. :))) LOL



Edited By - Thivya - 5 Nov 2009 16:38:46 GMT
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TamilNAdu Tamils went against Hindu India and made Tamilnadu tamil a Tamil - english mixed language.

Even then, they use North India for favouration to develop TN as an industrial/economic hub.

Tamils in Sri Lanka doing the same thing.

Sri Lankan Tamils have never contributed to the development of Sri Lanka. they get everything free and move to greener pastures.

Thivya's parents were no different.
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