Sri Lanka has two official languages - Sinhala or Singhalese is one, what is the other?
Languages of Sri Lanka Languages of Sri Lanka Several languages are spoken in Sri Lanka within the Indo-European, Dravidian and Austronesian families. Sri Lanka accords official status to Sinhalese and Tamil. The languages spoken on the island nation are deeply influenced by the languages of neighbouring India, the Maldives and Malaysia. Arab settlers and the colonial powers of Portugal, the Netherlands and Britain have also influenced the development of modern languages in Sri Lanka. As per 2016, the Sinhala language is mostly spoken by the Sinhalese people, who constitute approximately 74.9% of the national population and total about 16.6 million. It uses the Sinhala
Sri Lanka whistling thrush National Park, 2000m up in the highlands of Sri Lanka. In Sri Lanka, this bird is known as "Lanka Arangaya" in the Sinhala language. The Whistling-thrush appears in a 75c Sri Lankan postal stamp. Sri Lanka whistling thrush The Sri Lanka whistling thrush ("Myophonus blighi") is a whistling thrush in the family Muscicapidae. It is a resident endemic bird in Sri Lanka. It is found in the highlands of Sri Lanka in jungle or other dense forest near water. It is omnivorous, eating a wide range of insects, frogs, earthworms and berries. It lays one or two eggs in a