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... bilingual , and a fortunate few are trilingual14 , speaking English , Sinhalese and Tamil . It is because Sri Lankan speakers of English are not monolingual that Professor de Souza made this statement that English was never an all ...
... bilingual , and a fortunate few are trilingual14 , speaking English , Sinhalese and Tamil . It is because Sri Lankan speakers of English are not monolingual that Professor de Souza made this statement that English was never an all ...
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... bilingual or trilingual . This includes the western- ized elite , which uses English as a home language . In this context , a native speaker of Sri Lankan English is either bilingual or trilingual . This includes the Burgher and ...
... bilingual or trilingual . This includes the western- ized elite , which uses English as a home language . In this context , a native speaker of Sri Lankan English is either bilingual or trilingual . This includes the Burgher and ...
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... bilingual setting , but as power shifts to the younger generation , and there will be no English medium education available , the language of governance will be only Sinhalese since the majority will be monolingual speakers of Sinhalese ...
... bilingual setting , but as power shifts to the younger generation , and there will be no English medium education available , the language of governance will be only Sinhalese since the majority will be monolingual speakers of Sinhalese ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 7 |
Elitist English | 33 |
Mixing Languages | 49 |
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