sinhalese

The official and common language is Divehi , an Indo-European language related to Sinhalese , the language of Sri Lanka .

马尔代夫的官方语言和最普遍的是迪维西语，一种接近于僧伽罗语（斯里兰卡的语言）的印欧语言。

The multi-religious and multi-ethnic population includes many Buddhist monks with official languages being Sinhalese and Tamil , and English being widely spoken .

在这个众多信仰共存的多民族国度里有许多佛僧，它的官方语言是僧伽罗语和泰米尔语，而英语也被广泛使用。

Sinhalese make up74 % of the population and are concentrated in the densely populated southwest .

僧伽罗人（Sinhalese）构成人口的74%，集中于人口稠密的西南部。

Sri Lanka is an island of twenty-one million people in the Indian Ocean . Three-fourths are ethnic Sinhalese .

斯里兰卡是位于印度洋上的岛国，拥有2100万人口，四分之三的人口是僧伽罗族。

Kandy sits in a valley beside a placid lake that was ordered by the region 's last Sinhalese emperor .

康提（Kandy）坐落在山谷之中，毗邻一片宁静的湖泊，是由这个国家最后一位僧伽罗君主兴建。

Most Sinhalese are Buddhist ; most Tamils are Hindu .

大多数僧伽罗人是佛教徒；大多数泰米尔人是印度教徒。

Ethnic Composition : a mixture of Sinhalese , Dravidian , Arab and Black . of or relating to the Sinhalese languages .

民族：（斯里兰卡）僧伽罗人、（印度的）达罗毗荼人、阿拉伯人和黑人的混合民族。

Sizable minorities of both Sinhalese and Tamils are Christians , most of whom are Roman Catholic .

很少僧伽罗人和泰米尔人是基督教徒，大多数是罗马天主教徒。

Like others clambering on the Jaffna bus this week , Mr Chandran was happy that mobility between the mainly Sinhalese south and the mostly Tamil north is increasing .

像本周其他爬上开往贾夫纳的汽车的人一样，程德先生对于连接南部僧伽罗和北部泰米尔的联系正在加强而感到高兴。

Buddhism and a sophisticated system of irrigation became the pillars of classical Sinhalese civilization ( 200 bc-1200 AD ) that flourished in the north-central part of the island .

佛教和先进的灌溉系统成为岛上北部中心古典僧伽罗文明（200bc-1200ad）繁荣的支柱。

Sri lanka 's almost wholly literate inhabitants , 75 % of them Sinhalese and12 % sri Lankan tamils , share an understandable pride in their island .

斯里兰卡几乎所有识字的居民75%锡兰族人，12%泰米尔斯里兰卡人共同拥有对这个岛屿的可被理解的自豪。

I opted instead for a van with a cheerful Sinhalese driver named W. S. Yapa , who has been ferrying tourists and journalists throughout Sri Lanka for over three decades .

于是我选了坐面包车旅行，司机是个快活的僧伽罗人，名叫W·S·亚帕（W.S.Yapa），30多年来一直搭载旅客和记者们在斯里兰卡全境旅行

Mr. Ban , at a joint news conference with Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Rohitha Bogollogama , predicted that history could repeat itself if there is no reconciliation between the majority Sinhalese and the minority Tamils .

在跟斯里兰卡外交部长罗希塔.波格拉加马举行联合记者会时，潘基文警告说，如果占人口大多数的僧伽罗人跟少数民族泰米尔人不能取得和解，那么历史将会重演。

According to Maldivian legend , a Sinhalese prince named Koimalaa was stranded with his bride daughter of the king of Sri Lanka in a Maldivian lagoon and stayed on to rule as the first sultan .

根据马尔代夫的传说，从前，一个名叫Koimalaa的僧伽罗王子和他的新娘-斯里兰卡国王的女儿-被搁浅在马尔代夫的一个礁湖，无奈他们只能留在那里，至此成为了那里的第一代君王。