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International Music & Culture
Kid Songs and Rhymes of
Sri Lanka
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The Languages Spoken in Sri Lanka

Sinhala (official and national language) 74%
Tamil (national language) 18%
Other 8%
Note: English is commonly used in government and is spoken competently by about 10% of the population.

(This information is from the CIA World Factbook 2008.)

Here are some of Mama Lisa's recent posts about the music, culture and traditions of Sri Lanka:
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    We’d love it if you’d join the Mama Lisa Facebook Group. You can post anything you’d like about your culture. You can post your own musical recordings or YouTube videos… Links to culture and musical sites… Photos of your country… Questions about songs or cultural issues… Anything related to World Culture and... Read more »
  • We’ve just added 5 songs from Sri Lanka to Mama Lisa’s World, our site that features children’s songs from around the world in the original languages with translations in English. The songs are in a language called Sinhala. That brings the total languages we cover to 90! Here’s one sweet Sri Lankan song that... Read more »
  • In an earlier entry, I wrote about the history of Labor Day. In case you were wondering, here are some of the countries where demonstrations were held or where Labor Day was in some way honored around the world today (in some cases against the wishes of the government)... Russia Belarus Japan Germany Italy Philippines Cambodia Indonesia Malaysia South Korea Malta Mexico France Nepal Portugal Sri Lanka Nigeria Turkey Iran Great Britain Feel free to comment below... Read more »

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