Sri Lanka

Etymology
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Pronunciation


It should be noted that the Sanskrit honorific that the "Sri" comes from (श्री, ISO: Śrī) is pronounced [ɕriː], and while this pronunciation is preserved in Sinhalese, the closest English phoneme that best fits [ɕ] is /ʃ/, resulting in the approximation. in English results from ignoring or dropping the diacritic on ⟨s⟩ in the romanization ⟨śrī⟩. In Sinhalese, [sriː] may occur as an acceptable variant pronunciation only in quick, uneducated speech, because [ɕ] is an uncommon phoneme in Sinhalese and is replaced with [s] in certain dialects.

Both stresses on the first and second syllables of "Lanka" are accepted, but the latter is closer to its native pronunciation.

Usage notes
“Sri Lanka” has been the official name since 1972; prior to that it was Ceylon.

in Sri Lankan politics, in connection with the, and some find “Sri Lanka” to be too Sinhalese. A Tamil name is, and some Tamil political parties retain “Ceylon” in their name, such as the and the.

Translations

 * Afrikaans: Sri Lanka
 * Albanian: Sri Lanka
 * Amharic: ሽሪ ላንካ
 * Arabic: سِرِيلَانْكَا, سَرَنْدِيب
 * Aramaic:
 * Classical Syriac: ܣܝܪܢܕܝܒ
 * Armenian: Շրի Լանկա
 * Ashokan Prakrit: 𑀢𑀁𑀩𑀧𑀁𑀦𑀺
 * Assamese: শ্ৰীলংকা
 * Asturian:
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Belarusian: Шры-Ланка́, Шры-Ла́нка
 * Bengali:
 * Breton: Sri Lanka
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:, သီဟိုဠ်
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 斯里蘭卡
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: Sri Lanka
 * Dhivehi: އޮޅުދޫކަރަ, ސިރީލަންކާ
 * Dutch:
 * Dzongkha: ཤྲཱྀ་ལངཀ
 * Esperanto: Lanko, Sri-Lanko,
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese: Sri Lanka
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Gujarati: શ્રીલંકા
 * Hausa: Siri Lanka
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:, , ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Interlingua: Sri Lanka
 * Inuktitut: ᔅᕇ ᓛᓐᑲ
 * Irish: Srí Lanca
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Kalenjin: Srilanka
 * Kamba: Srilanka
 * Kannada:
 * Kazakh:
 * Khmer:
 * Kikuyu: Srilanka
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Kyrgyz: Шри-Ланка
 * Lao:
 * Latin: Tāprobanē, Srilanca
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian:
 * Lü: ᦟᧂᦂᦱ
 * Luhya: Srilanka
 * Luo: Srilanka
 * Macedonian:
 * Malay:, Seri Langka
 * Malayalam: ശ്രീലങ്ക
 * Maltese:
 * Maori: Hīraka
 * Marathi: श्रीलंका
 * Meru: Srilanka, Srilanka
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic: Шри-Ланка
 * Navajo: Swii Lankʼa
 * Norman: Sri Lanka
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk:
 * Pashto: سريلانکا
 * Persian:
 * Iranian Persian: سِری‌لانْکا, سَرَنْدیپ
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Punjabi: ਸ੍ਰੀ ਲੰਕਾ
 * Romanian: Sri Lanca
 * Russian: ,
 * Sanskrit: श्रीलङ्का
 * Santali: ᱥᱨᱤᱞᱚᱝᱠᱟ
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: Шри̑ Ла̑нка
 * Roman:
 * Shan: သီႇရီႉလင်ႇၵႃႇ,, ႀီႇႁူဝ်ႇ
 * Sindhi: سري لنڪا, سريلنڪا
 * Sinhalese:, ශ්‍රී ලංකා
 * Slovak: Srí Lanka
 * Slovene: Šri Lanka
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: Sri Langka
 * Tajik:
 * Tamil: ,
 * Tatar: Шри-Ланка
 * Telugu:
 * Thai:
 * Tibetan: སེང་ག་གླིང
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: Şri-Lanka
 * Ukrainian:
 * Urdu: سِری لَن٘کا
 * Uyghur: سرىلانكا
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese: Xri Lan-ca
 * Yiddish: סרי לאַנקאַ
 * Yoruba: Siri Láńkà
 * Zhuang: Swhlijlanzgaj

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